Nineteen-Eighty-Four: Lesson reviewing Stylistic Devices (Text Structures)

A PowerPoint presentation designed for use in a Grade 12 English class. it was designed to prepare the students for their external exam (where they have to produce an analytical essay in response to an unseen question / statement about the text).

The lesson includes:
• A warm up activity where students must find the language features in a song
• An explanation of the term ‘stylistic devices’ from the syllabus
• An explanation of ‘characterisation’ and a series of slides about this
• Information about types of characters – sympathetic / unsympathetic, stereotypical etc.
• Viewing activities to apply this new knowledge.
• An explanation of ‘setting’ and ‘atmosphere’ + how some settings can be symbolic
• An explanation of ‘tone’ and ‘mood’
• An explanation of ‘themes’ and ‘symbols’
• An explanation of literary voice and narrative viewpoint (e.g. external omniscient, internal, external limited, naïve)
• An explanation of narrative structure and how this can effect meaning
• A couple of examples from Nineteen Eighty Four

Resources designed for the new senior General English syllabus (implemented in QLD in 2019). The syllabus objectives would also be useful more broadly for English students in other states and countries with an interest in this text.