You know when you read the opening sentence/paragraph of a book and you are hooked? What do they do that makes us want to invest our time in it? If we look at a variety of opening paragraphs, we may be able to find some patterns and commonalities.
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From Life: An exploded Diagram by Mal Peet
Here's what we found:
In the opening sentence, Mal Peet
What are other ways to hook us in. On our Memoir checklist it says
The reader gets ‘hooked’ right at the start-through such devices as: direct speech, monologue, dialogue, question command, scene setting by showing not telling, problem outline, tension
Here's what we found:
In the opening sentence, Mal Peet
- introduced a character,
- what she was doing,
- where she was,
- when it was (R.A.F spitfire & ..."she'd often say over the years."
- a complication and a resolution (of sorts!)
- direct speech
- informal language (that gives more insight into the character)
What are other ways to hook us in. On our Memoir checklist it says
The reader gets ‘hooked’ right at the start-through such devices as: direct speech, monologue, dialogue, question command, scene setting by showing not telling, problem outline, tension
Can we find examples of these to use as mentor texts?
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