What makes a good story differs from person to person.

Each reader has their own idea of what is a good story, and having a good narrative does not necessarily mean that you will get good marks for it. So for the high school student what is a good narrative? The answer is a criteria that must be fulfilled to satisfy what the oard of Studies considers to be a good responsive te!t" #aving a $sophisticated% response means using T.E.E& 's( with flair and logic. Engaging with a classic narrative or having an structured narrative. Successfully conveys what you are trying to tell the reader without confusion or ambiguity engage with )uestion and theme provided by marker The irony here is that $originality% is likely going to lower your marks unless you have perfect control over your level of language. *vertly written pieces that often e!plore very sensitive issues need powerful, specific language to describe them. Trying to use low tier 'band( diction, and T.E.E& 's( to describe very comple! and powerful emotions and events will only result in cliche+ and a mundane sense of melodrama. E!amples of themes students are ,*T advised to do are" -nything se!ually e!plicit violence 'bloody( .eath 'especially if $you% die( /reat Trauma 'such as holocaust( #uge narratives '0opying 1ord of the 2ing in 34 min will not work( *bvious and obno!ious cliches 'overcoming fear of 5, reali6ing you were wrong all along, etc( What you should write about are things that you are intimately familiar with, which through clever use of language you can describe in your own $words%. E!amples of these are 0ultural Events 7ersonal E!periences

Travel E!periences 0omplications and 2esolutions 1essons learned in life created from anecdotes 'actually happened not a fantasy one( So what to write about? The structure of any '8444 word( narrative is typically as follow" Orientation (300) Where, When, Who, What conveys very clearly the context, the setting and the foreshadowing of an complication this foreshadowing builds tension and implores the audience to continue reading !omplication ("00) Why, #ow, leading up to a climax where the resolution is foreshadowed or achieved through an epiphany $ote that logical development is essential in this part of the narrative %esolution (&00) 'ogically concludes the narrative, preferably with a punchline that engages with the theme prescribed by the examiner *f course you are free to pursue any narrative convention you wish, from a episodic narrative to one involving some kind of median bi9section with flashbacks and flash forwards. #owever, the golden rule remains that there must be a conclusion of sorts, and this resolution must engage with the thematic outlines of your prescribed writing. *n :sing T.E.E& 's( So you%ve got a great idea now is the time to write it. -t what point can you look at your writing and say to yourself ;&mm yes < think that will do nicely?= - straight forward and overgeneralised answer would be to consider how many T.E.E& 's( you have used, and at what level have you used them. 2efer to my master list for a collection of T.E.E& 's( you may wish to employ. elow are some e!amples. ,arrative E!ample with no T.E.E& 's(" -n refugee in -fghanistan looks around at his destroyed home. #e feels a sense of loss and indignant anger. This anger he does not know who to direct to. To

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asic >isual T.E.E& :sage" imagery, personification, simile %ahat surveys the wrec(age around him )mo(e pours from the ruins li(e some ghostly visage )mall sprouts of fire still danced where the impact had struc(* shattering the mud hut li(e a giant fist crushing a helpless muffin

-dvanced T.E.E& :sage allusion, visual imagery, metaphor, simile !old tendrils of dread grasp at %ahat+s sin(ing heart #is home lay in shambles, a blasted crater where moments ago it was wholesome and filled with the laughter of his family #is head swam and his eyes gla,ed over #is mouth opened and closed li(e a fish gasping for water Elaborate T.E.E& :sage 0omple! Sentences, truncated clauses, alliteration, metaphors, synaesthesia, ?u!taposition and onomatopoeia

%ahat+s world erupted into red hot splinters and fla(ing snowy ash -he oily .fghan sun bla,ed mercilessly but %ahat felt only the stabbing of icy slivers in his spine . metallic taste filled his mouth, his patched tongue satiated in its own blood #is mind raced, his body fro,en, blood thumped li(e a staccato drum against his temples/ -s you can see, the descriptions become much more powerful and effective with appropriate techni)ues that are relevant to the scene being described. *ne good indication of writing is composite techni)ues synaethesia 'taste, smell, sound, touch, internal sensations( mi!ed with supportive techni)ues like alliteration, assonance and carried forward with a repetitive motif element.