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90 minutes - conference call
The A-Level Paper may ask you to analyse one of the following aspects of a literary text:

characterisation

setting

atmosphere

narrative perspective.

Similar to the analysis of a characterisation, in the analysis of a setting you will have to identify the means the writer uses to render the setting. Remember that today's literary critics distinguish between three main types of devices writer use to achieve effects: linguistic, presentational and structural.ks
Task:
Analyse the devices the author uses to render the setting in pages 100 to 150 of The Circle.
The deadline for uploading your answer under the 'assignment' in our Team is 6 pm and late hand-in until 11:59 pm is permitted.

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Follow the link and read how Wikipedia explains the Setting.

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world or to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story. Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour. Along with the plot, character, theme, and style, setting is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.

Setting may refer to the social milieu in which the events of a novel occur. The elements of the story setting include the passage of time, which may be static in some stories or dynamic in others with, for example, changing seasons.

A setting can take three basic forms. One is the natural world, or in an outside place. In this setting, the natural landscapes of the world play an important part in a narrative, along with living creatures and different times of weather conditions and seasons. The second form exists as the cultural and historical background in which the narrative resides. Past events that have impacted the cultural background of characters or locations are significant in this way. The third form of a setting is a public or private place that has been created/maintained and/or resided in by people. Examples of this include a house, a park, a street, a school, etc.

Setting may take various forms:

Levin, Donna (1992), , Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, ISBN 0-89879-517-6

Obstfeld, Raymond (2002), Fiction First Aid: Instant Remedies for Novels, Stories and Scripts, Cincinnati, OH: Writer's Digest Books, ISBN 1-58297-117-X

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A setting (or backdrop) is the time and geographic location within a narrative, either non-fiction or fiction. It is a literary element. The setting initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story. The setting can be referred to as story world or to include a context (especially society) beyond the immediate surroundings of the story.

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Follow this link and read the information about the Setting noting down specific vocabulary and expressions.

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Dear Students,
this term's topic is 'The Media' and will be dedicated to getting ready for your A-Level exam.
I will use this padlet to help you keep track of what we do.

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This pink colour - which is actually supposed to be red and we will call it red - means that you must work on the task and hand it in. You will hand it only via Teams - this is part of the task. Your work will not be considered if you hand it in using any other way. If Teams does not work, possibly because there is something wrong in the setting, please contact me through the Teams messenger.
The task will be posted on Teams at 7:30 am of the day we would have lesson. You will have to hand in the answer by no later than 18 pm of the same day. No exceptions.

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If you see the blue colour you should be working on the task because it could be beneficial. However, you will not have to hand it in.

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There may be times when you are bored at home because you have nothing better to do, particularly during the lockdown. If you feel bored, please consider working on one of the yellow tasks. These are learning activities that I will suggest you to do to improve your English and, hopefully, your A-Level grade.

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We are reading The Circle by Dave Eggers. I expect you to read 50 pages every week. We read 50 pages the week before the Christmas holidays and we will be reading further 50 this week.

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90 Minutes
Let's start this term with a quick revision of the rules of the first task of the A-Level paper: comprehension.
Check EP 2.1 Anforderungsbereich I on page 332 and Verbs for Tasks ('Operatoren') on page 364 of your textbook.
Also download, save and study the document attached.
In lesson you will be asked to re-tell this information.

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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters.

He is founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern. McSweeney's also publishes Voice of Witness, a nonprofit book series that uses oral history to illuminate human rights crises around the world.

Eggers is the co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centers around the United States. Numerous other organizations worldwide operate with inspiration from the 826 National model. Realizing the need for greater college access for low-income students, Eggers founded ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization designed to connect students with resources, schools and donors to make college possible.

Eggers's novel What Is the What, about the life of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee from the civil war in South Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, run by Mr. Deng. VADF operates secondary schools in South Sudan.

Eggers's books for young readers include What Can a Citizen Do?, Her Right Foot, This Bridge Will Not Be Gray, and The Wild Things, among others.

Trained as a painter, Eggers's artworks have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Nevada Museum of Art, the Biennial of the Americas, and numerous other galleries and art spaces. Eggers is winner of the Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Award for Education, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the TED Prize, and has been a finalist for the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.

In 2018, Eggers co-founded The International Congress of Youth Voices, an annual gathering of 100 extraordinary young writers and activists; their landmark meeting in San Francisco resulted in a youth-written manifesto published by The Guardian.

He lives with his family in Northern California. They have no significant pets.

To inquire about a speaking engagement for Dave, write to Amanda Uhle at speaking@hawkinsproject.org. Note that no personal correspondence can be answered at this address.

To write a letter to Dave, mail it to P.O. Box 410987, San Francisco, CA 94141. To receive a reply, please include your own three-dimensional mailing address.

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Dave Eggers is the author of many books, including The Circle, The Monk of Mokha, What is the What, A Hologram for the King, and The Lifters. He is founder of McSweeney's, an independent publishing company based in San Francisco that produces books, a humor website, and a journal of new writing, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern.

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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is married to writer Vendela Vida with whom he has two children. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Eggers is also the founder of McSweeney's, a literary journal, a co-founder of the literacy project 826 Valencia and the human rights nonprofit Voice of Witness, and the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. His writing has appeared in several magazines.

Eggers was born in Boston, Massachusetts, one of four siblings. His father, John K. Eggers (1936-1991), was an attorney, while his mother, Heidi McSweeney Eggers (1940-1992), was a school teacher. His father was Protestant and his mother was Catholic. When Eggers was still a child, the family moved to the suburb of Lake Forest, near Chicago, where he attended high school and was a classmate of actor Vince Vaughn. Eggers attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, intending to get a degree in journalism. However, his studies were interrupted by the deaths of both of his parents: his father in 1991 from brain and lung cancer, and his mother in January 1992 from stomach cancer.

These events were chronicled in his first book, the fictionalized A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. At the time, Eggers was 21, and his younger brother, Christopher ("Toph"), was 8 years old. The two eldest siblings, Bill and Beth, were unable to commit to care for Toph; his older brother had a full-time job and his sister was enrolled in law school. As a result, Dave Eggers took the responsibility. He left the University of Illinois and moved to Berkeley, California, with his girlfriend Kirsten and his brother. They initially moved in with Eggers' sister, Beth, and her roommate, but eventually found a place in another part of town, which they paid for with money left to them by their parents. Toph attended a small private school, and Eggers did temp work and freelance graphic design for a local newspaper. Eventually, with his friend David Moodie, he took over a local free newspaper called Cups. This gradually evolved into the satirical magazine Might.[citation needed ]

Eggers lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and is married to Vendela Vida, also a writer. The couple have two children.

Eggers's elder brother, Bill, is a researcher who has worked for several conservative think tanks, doing research promoting privatization. Eggers's sister, Beth, died of suicide in November 2001. Eggers briefly spoke about his sister's death during a 2002 fan interview for McSweeney's.

He was one of three 2008 TED Prize recipients. His TED Prize wish was for helping community members to personally engage with local public schools. The same year, he was named one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing the World" by Utne Reader.

In 2005, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters from Brown University. He delivered the baccalaureate address at the school in 2008.

Eggers began writing as a editor and founded magazine in San Francisco in the early 1990s with David Moodie and Marny Requa, while also writing a comic strip called Smarter Feller (originally Swell) for .

Might evolved out of the small San Francisco-based independent paper Cups, and gathered a loyal following with its irreverent humour and quirky approach to the issues and personalities of the day. An article purporting to be an obituary of former 1980s child star Adam Rich (originally intended to be Back to the Future star Crispin Glover, until Glover backed-out) garnered some national attention. The magazine regularly included humour pieces, and a number of essays and non-fiction pieces by seminal 1990s writers, including "Impediments to Passion", an essay on sex in the AIDS era by David Foster Wallace.

As Eggers later recounted in his memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, the magazine consistently struggled to make a profit, and finally ceased publication in 1997. An anthology of the best of Might magazine's brief run, ' Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp' and Other Essays from Might Magazine, was published in late 1998. By this time, Eggers was freelancing for magazine and continuing to work for Salon.[citation needed ]

Eggers' first book was a memoir with fictional elements, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), which focused on his struggle to raise his younger brother in San Francisco following the deaths of both of their parents. The book quickly became a bestseller and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The memoir was praised for its originality, idiosyncratic self-referencing, and for several innovative stylistic elements. Early printings of the 2001 trade-paperback edition were published with a lengthy postscript entitled, Mistakes We Knew We Were Making.[citation needed ]

In 2002, Eggers published his first fully fictional novel, You Shall Know Our Velocity, a story about a frustrating attempt to give away money to deserving people while haphazardly traveling the globe. An expanded and revised version was released as Sacrament in 2003. A version without the new material in Sacrament was created and retitled You Shall Know Our Velocity! for a Vintage imprint distribution. He has since published a collection of short stories, How We Are Hungry, and three politically themed serials for .

In November 2005, Eggers published Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated, a book of interviews with former prisoners sentenced to death and later exonerated. The book was compiled with Lola Vollen, a specialist in the aftermath of major human rights abuses and a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley's Institute of International Studies.

Eggers's 2006 novel What Is the What: The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Eggers also edits the Best American Nonrequired Reading series, an annual anthology of short stories, essays, journalism, satire, and alternative comics.[citation needed ]

Eggers was one of the original contributors to ESPN The Magazine and helped create its section "The Jump". He also acted as the first, anonymous "Answer Guy", a column that continued to run after he stopped working for the publication.

On November 7, 2009, he was presented with the "Courage in Media" Award by the Council on American-Islamic Relations for his book . Zeitoun was optioned by Jonathan Demme, who considered an animated film-rendition of the work. To Demme, it "felt like the first in-depth immersion I'd ever had through literature or film into the Muslim-American family. ... The moral was that they are like people of any other faith, and I hope our film, if we can get it made, will also be like that." Demme, quoted in early 2011, expressed confidence that when the script was finished, he would be able to find financing, perhaps even from a major studio. However, in May 2014, The Playlist reported that the film was "percolat[ing] in development". Demme died in April 2017, and the project has not been heard of since.

In the early 2010s, after going six years without publishing substantive literary fiction following What is the What, Eggers began a three-year streak of back-to-back novels, each broadly concerned with pressing social and political issues facing the United States and the wider world in the twenty-first century. Eggers published his novel of the Great Recession and late 2000s financial crisis, A Hologram for the King, in July 2012. In October of that year, the novel was announced as a finalist for the National Book Award.

Eggers followed this with , released in October 2013, and depicting the life of a young worker at a fictional San Francisco-based technology company in the near future, as she faces doubts about her vocation, due to the company's seemingly well-intentioned innovations revealing a more sinister underlying agenda. Completing the productive spell, a new novel concerning anxiety with America's place in the world, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?, was published in June 2014. In November 2015, Your Fathers, Where Are They... was longlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award, Eggers' fifth nomination for the award following earlier nominations for The Circle, A Hologram for the King, The Wild Things, and What is the What.

In July 2016, Eggers published his sixth novel Heroes of the Frontier. Earlier the same year, a film adaptation of Eggers' earlier novel A Hologram for the King was released, to mixed reviews and middling commercial performance. , a film version of Eggers' book, starring Emma Watson, John Boyega, and Tom Hanks (who had starred in the Hologram for the King adaptation), was released in April 2017. Eggers followed Heroes of the Frontier with The Monk of Mokha (2018), another nonfiction biography in a similar vein to , billed by the publishers as "the exhilarating true story of a young Yemeni American man, raised in San Francisco, who dreams of resurrecting the ancient art of Yemeni coffee but finds himself trapped in Sana'a by civil war."

Eggers ended the decade by publishing two very stylistically different novellas, written concurrently with each other. The Parade, published by Knopf in March 2019, was a spare, minimalist novella reflecting Eggers' long-standing concerns with humanitarian issues, global development, and Western perceptions of the developing world. According to the advance blurb from the publisher, the novel concerns "two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country." Reviews were mixed: positive notices included Andrew Motion writing in The Guardian that "[Eggers'] novel may be sternly reduced in terms of its cast and language, but this leanness doesn't diminish the strength of its argument," while Ron Charles in the Washington Post demurred that The Parade "[is] a story that conforms to the West's reductive attitudes about the developing world. Writers and politicians have long generalized about those individual cultures. A novel that lumps them together into a nameless, primitive nation only plays into that tendency." The Parade was followed in November 2019 by another short novella, The Captain and the Glory, billed by Eggers himself as a "allegorical satire" of the Trump administration. In an interview with the publishers Knopf published on the McSweeney's website, Eggers described the novel as "an attempt to understand this era by painting it in the gaudy and garish colors it really deserves ... This is part farce, part parable, and I do hope, though the Captain bears more than a passing resemblance to Trump, that the book will be readable when Trump is gone. That's part of the reason I called it "An entertainment" on the title page. It's a nod to Graham Greene but also the way I hope people will read it. It was cathartic to write and I hope cathartic to read. " As with The Parade, reviews were decidedly mixed, with much criticism noting that Eggers' satire struggled to keep up with or do justice to the events of the Trump era. In a review for the Financial Times, Carl Wilkinson expressed bemusement about the purpose of the book and its intentions, Hannah Barekat in The Spectator was critical for the "heavy handed" nature of the book's satire, while The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, and Kirkus also found the book wanting.

McSweeney's

Eggers founded McSweeney's, an independent publishing house, named for his mother's maiden name. The publishing house produces a quarterly literary journal, Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, first published in 1998; a monthly journal, The Believer, which debuted in 2003 and is edited by Eggers's wife, Vendela Vida; and, from 2005 to 2012, a quarterly DVD magazine, . Other works include The Future Dictionary of America, Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans, and "Dr. and Mr. Haggis-On-Whey", all children's books of literary nonsense, which Eggers writes with his younger brother and uses as a pseudonym.[citation needed ]

Ahead of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, Eggers wrote an essay about the U.S. national team and soccer in the United States for The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, which contained essays about each competing team in the tournament and was published with aid from the journal . According to The San Francisco Chronicle, Eggers was rumored to be a possible candidate to be the new editor of The Paris Review before the Review selected Lorin Stein.

While at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Eggers attended art classes. After the publication of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, he focused mainly on writing, but publicly returned to visual art with a solo gallery show at Electric Works, San Francisco, in 2010, called "It Is Right to Draw Their Fur." The show featured many drawings of animals often paired with phrases, sometimes out of the Bible. In conjunction with that exhibition, McSweeney's published a catalog featuring 25 loose-leaf prints of the work featured in the show. In 2015 Eggers had his first solo museum exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art called "The Insufferable Throne of God". Eggers is represented by Electric Works a fine art gallery in San Francisco.

Outside of exhibitions, Eggers' visual art contributions include the following:

Provided album art for Austin rock group Paul Banks & the Carousels' album Yelling at the Sun.

In 2002, Eggers and educator Nínive Clements Calegari co-founded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for kids ages 6-18 in San Francisco. It has since grown into six chapters across the United States: Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and Boston, all under the auspices of the nonprofit organization 826 National.

In 2006, he appeared at a series of fund-raising events, dubbed the Revenge of the Book-Eaters tour, to support these programs. The Chicago show, at the Park West theatre, featured Death Cab for Cutie front man Ben Gibbard. Other performers on the tour included Sufjan Stevens, Jon Stewart, Davy Rothbart, and David Byrne. In September 2007, the Heinz Family Foundation awarded Eggers a $250,000 Heinz Award (given to recognize "extraordinary achievements by individuals") in the Arts and Humanities. In accordance with Eggers's wishes, the award money was given to 826 National and The Teacher Salary Project.

In April 2010, under the umbrella of 826 National, Eggers launched ScholarMatch, a nonprofit organization that connects donors with students to make college more affordable.

Eggers can be heard talking with Spike Jonze during "The Horrible Fanfare/Landslide/Exoskeleton", the final track on Beck's 2006 album The Information. The third section of the track features Eggers and Jonze responding to Beck's question, "What would the ultimate record that ever could possibly be made sound like?"

Eggers contributed lyrics to the song, "The Ghost of Rita Gonzolo", on One Ring Zero's album As Smart as We Are (2004).

2000 Time Best Book of the Year, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 Washington Post Best Book of the Year, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2000 The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2001 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction finalist, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

2001 Addison Metcalfe Award (American Academy of Arts and Letters)

2003 Independent Book Award, You Shall Know Our Velocity

2005 Named one of TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential People

2006 Salon Book Award for What is the What

2007 The 13th Annual Heinz Award (Arts and Humanities)

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction) finalist, What is the What

2008 TED Prize

2008 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, What is the What

2009 Literarian Award of the National Book Award

2009 Prix Médicis award, What is the What

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Current Interest),

2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Innovator's Award)

2009 Entertainment Weekly "End-of-the-Decade" Best of list, Zeitoun

2010 Northern California Book Award (Creative Nonfiction) nomination, Zeitoun

2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize,

2011 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, The Wild Things

2012 National Book Award (Fiction) finalist, A Hologram for the King

2012 A Hologram for the King named in the 10 Best Books of 2012 list by editors of The New York Times Book Review

2012 A Hologram for the King included in Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2012 list

2012 Commonwealth Club Inforum's 21st Century Award

2012 Hollywood.com Best Books of 2012 list, A Hologram for the King

2012 Albatros Literaturpreis for , co-won with German translators Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann.

2012 The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 List (Fiction & Poetry), A Hologram for the King

2012 The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2012 list (Fiction, chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review), A Hologram for the King

2012 PEN Center USA Award of Honor 2012

2013 Eggers was the 2013 recipient of Smithsonian magazine's American Ingenuity Award in the Social Progress category

2013 California Book Award (Fiction) finalist, A Hologram for the King

2014 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, A Hologram for the King

2015 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, The Circle

2015 Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters

2018 International Dublin Literary Award shortlist, Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Collections:

Jokes Told in Heaven About Babies (2003), as Lucy Thomas, collection

How We Are Hungry (2004), collection of 15 short stories:
"Another", "What It Means When a Crowd in a Faraway Nation Takes a Soldier Representing Your Own Nation, Shoots Him, Drags Him from His Vehicle and Then Mutilates Him in the Dust", "The Only Meaning of the Oil-Wet Water", "On Wanting to Have Three Walls up Before She Gets Home", "Climbing to the Window, Pretending to Dance", "She Waits, Seething, Blooming", "Quiet", "Your Mother and I", "Naveed", "Notes for a Story of a Man Who Will Not Die Alone", "About the Man Who Began Flying After Meeting Her", "Up the Mountain Coming Down Slowly", "There Are Some Things He Should Keep to Himself", "When They Learned to Yelp", "After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned"

Short Short Stories (2005), part of the Pocket Penguins series, collection of 24 short stories:
"You Know How to Spell Elijah", "This Certain Song", "What the Water Feels Like to the Fishes", "The Weird Wife", "This Flight Attendant (Gary, Is It?) Is On Fire!", "True Story - 1986 - Midwest - USA - Tuesday", "It is Finally Time to Tell the Story", "A Circle Like Some Circles", "On Making Someone a Good Man By Calling Him a Good Man", "The Definition of Reg", "How Long It Took", "She Needed More Nuance", "The Heat and Eduardo, Part I", "Of Gretchen and de Gaulle", "The Heat and Eduardo, Part II", "Sleep to Dreamier Sleep Be Wed", "On Seeing Bob Balaban in Person Twice in One Week", "When He Started Saying 'I Appreciate It' After 'Thank You'", "You'll Have to Save That For Another Time", "Woman, Foghorn", "How Do Koreans Feel About the Germans?", "Georgia is Lost", "They Decide To Have No More Death", "Roderick Hopes"

How the Water Feels to the Fishes (2007), part of One Hundred and Forty-Five Stories in a Small Box, collection of 31 short stories:
"Once a year", "Accident", "Old enough", "She needs a new journal", "Sooner", "The commercials of Norway", "Lily", "The boy they didn't take pictures of", "The fights not fought", "The horror", "How the water feels to the fishes", "How to do it", "Go-getters", "Deeper", "The battle between", "There are different kinds", "Alberto", "You still know that boy", "No safe harbor", "The bounty", "On making him a good man calling him a good man", "Thoughtful that way", "We can work it out", "No one knows", "The island from the window", "The anger of the horses", "California moved west", "How the air feels to the birds", "The man who", "Older than", "Steve again"

Uncollected short stories:

"The Man At The River" (2013)

"We Like You So Much and Want to Know You Better" (2013)

"The Alaska of Giants and Gods" (2014)

"Understanding the Sky" (2015)

Children's books

The Haggis-on-Whey World of Unbelievable Brilliance series (as "Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-On-Whey", with Christopher Eggers, picture books):

1. Giraffes? Giraffes! (2003)

2. Your Disgusting Head (2001)

3. Animals of the Ocean, in Particular the Giant Squid (2006)

4. Cold Fusion (2008)

5. Children and the Tundra (2010)

Stand-alones:

When Marlana Pulled a Thread (2011), picture book

The Bridge Will Not Be Gray (2015), with illustrations by Tucker Nichols, picture book

Her Right Foot (2017), with illustrations by Shawn Harris, picture book

The Lifters (2018)

What Can a Citizen Do? (2018), with illustrations by Shawn Harris, picture book

Abner & Ian Get Right-Side Up (2019), with illustrations by Laura Park, picture book

Most of the Better Natural Things in the World (2019), with illustrations by Angel Chang, picture book

Tomorrow Most Likely (2019), with illustrations by Lane Smith, picture book

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000), memoirs

Mistakes We Knew We Were Making (2000), memoirs

Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers (2005), with Daniel Moulthrop and Nínive Clements Calegari, sociology

Mange Tout: Teaching Your Children To Love Fruit And Vegetables Without Tears (2007), as Lucy Thomas, guide

Zeitoun (2009), biography

It Is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings (2010), drawings

Visitants (2013), travels

Ungrateful Mammals (2017), drawings

The Monk of Mokha (2018), biography

Phoenix (2019), politics

Drama in the Desert: The Sights and Sounds of Burning Man (ISBN 0972178902) (Eggers wrote the foreword) (2002)

Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated (co-compiled with Lola Vollen; with an introduction by Scott Turow) (2005)

Stories Upon Stories (2016), anthology of short stories, editor and contributor

Some Recollections from a Busy Life: The Forgotten Story of the Real Town of Hollister, California by T.S. Hawkins (2016) (Eggers provides the introduction to a reprint of an autobiography by his great, great grandfather originally published in 1913)

Altes, Liesbeth Korthals (2008) "Sincerity, Reliability, and Other Ironies - Notes on Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in Narrative Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel (eds. Elke D'hoker and Gunther Martens). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

Boxall, Peter. Twenty-First-Century Fiction: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge University Press, 2013. [contains discussion of What is the What]

D'Amore, Jonathan. American Authorship and Autobiographical Narrative: Mailer, Wideman, Eggers. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. [joint study on works of Norman Mailer, John Edgar Wideman, and Eggers; contains discussion of ...Staggering Genius, "Mistakes We Knew We Were Making", You Shall Know Our Velocity, and What is the What]

den Dulk, Allard. Existentialist Engagement in Wallace, Eggers and Foer. Bloomsbury, 2014. [joint study on the works of Eggers, David Foster Wallace, and Jonathan Safran Foer; contains discussion of ...Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity and The Circle]

Funk, Wolfgang. The Literature of Reconstruction: American Literature in the New Millennium. Bloomsbury. 2015 [contains a chapter on 'reconstructing the author' in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]

Galow, Timothy W. Understanding Dave Eggers. University of South Carolina Press. 2014.

Giles, Paul. The Global Remapping of American Literature. Princeton University Press, 2011 [contains discussion of ...Staggering Genius and What is the What]

Grassian, Daniel. Hybrid Fictions: American Literature and Generation X. McFarland, 2003 [contains discussion of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius]

Hamilton, Caroline D. "Blank Looks: Reality TV and Memoir in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol.28, no.2. (December 2009), pp.31-46

Hamilton, Caroline D. One Man Zeitgeist: Dave Eggers, Publishing and Publicity. Bloomsbury, 2012.

Holland, Mark K. Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature. Bloomsbury, 2013. [contains discussion of ...Staggering Genius]

Jensen, Mikkel (2014) "A Note on a Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in The Explicator. Volume 72, Issue 2.[1]

Mosseau, Robert. "Connecting Travel Writing, Bildungsroman, and Therapeutic Culture in Dave Eggers's Literature" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of You Shall Know Our Velocity and A Hologram for the King]

Nicol, Bran (2006) "'The Memoir as Self-Destruction': Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" in Modern Confessional Writing (ed. Jo Gill). New York: Routledge.

Peek, Michelle. "Humanitarian Narrative and Posthumanist Critique: Dave Eggers's What is the What. Biography. 35.1 (Winter, 2012), pp.115-136.

Pignagnoli, Virginia. "Sincerity, Sharing, and Authorial Discourses on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction: The Case of Dave Eggers's You Shall Know Our Velocity" in Lanzendorfer, Tim [ed.] The Poetics of Genre in the Contemporary Novel. Lexington Books, 2015. [contains discussion of You Shall Know Our Velocity and The Circle]

Sommerfeld, Stephanie. "Nature Revisited: Postironic Sublimity in Dave Eggers" in Pierce, Gillian B. [ed.] The Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012. 67-101.

Timmer, Nicoline. Do You Feel it Too? The Post-Postmodern Syndrome in American Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium. Rodopi, 2010. [contains discussion of ...Staggering Genius]

Varvogli, Aliki. Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction. Routledge, 2012. [Contains discussion of What is the What and You Shall Know Our Velocity]

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Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970) is an American writer, editor, and publisher. He is married to writer Vendela Vida with whom he has two children. He wrote the best-selling memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius .

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Listen to the Audiobook on Youtube and read along for at least 10 minutes - this is good exercise!

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Summarise Mae's arrival at the campus in 180 words.
Make sure you use the check list posted above and respect all the rules for the comprehension task. Upload your answer on Teams directly under the task.

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The two operators of the comprehension task I have seen more often in the A-Level papers of the last years are summarise and outline.
Make sure you have a thorough understanding of the difference between the two.
In a nutshell: you summarise the whole text if nothing else is specified whereas you outline the parts that are relevant to the task.
At this point you could refer to the information on pages 332 and 364 of your Textbook.
Also download, save and study the document attached below.

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Outline Mae's emotions and feelings  upon her arrival at the campus.
Expected number of words 180 (+-10%)
Make sure you use the check list posted above and respect all the rules for the comprehension task.
Upload your answer on Teams directly under the task between 8 am and 6 pm.

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We have dedicated this first week of the new term to revising the requirements for the comprehension task. Remember that the rules apply to all operators:

describe

give an account of

outline

summarise

sum up

state

Learn these instructions by heart. Keep very well in mind that summarise, sum up and outline are the most likely to be on the paper (well, this is my experience.)
The one I do not recall seeing in the past ten years is describe, at least for a text A (the continuous text). Though, I would like you to work an a description, just to be able to say that 'we did it' and that 'we feel prepared'.
Using the drawing you handed in on the 16th of December describe the campus as depicted in the first 50 pages of the novel. Expected number of words 180 (+-10%). Attach your drawing.
Remember to upload your answer directly under the task between 8 am and 6 pm today.

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Listen to the Audiobook on Youtube and read along for at least 10 minutes - this is good exercise!

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Read the two .pdf documents uploaded under Monday the 4th and Wednesday the 6th of January and the information on pages 322 and 364 of your textbook and memorise the requirements for the comprehension part of the exam paper.

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... or maybe watch the movie in English with subtitles?

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The Circle Official Trailer 1 (2017) - Emma Watson Movie

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Continue reading the book, remember that you must have read 100 pages by now and we will be reading further 50 pages this coming week.

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Commas and periods are the most frequently used punctuation marks. Commas customarily indicate a brief pause; they're not as final as periods.

Note: When the last comma in a series comes before and or or (after daughter-in-law in the above example), it is known as the Oxford comma. Most newspapers and magazines drop the Oxford comma in a simple series, apparently feeling it's unnecessary. However, omission of the Oxford comma can sometimes lead to misunderstandings.

Adding a comma after crackers makes it clear that cheese and crackers represents one dish. In cases like this, clarity demands the Oxford comma.
We had coffee, cheese and crackers, and grapes.
Fiction and nonfiction books generally prefer the Oxford comma. Writers must decide Oxford or no Oxford and not switch back and forth, except when omitting the Oxford comma could cause confusion as in the cheese and crackers example.

He is a strong, healthy man.
We could also say healthy, strong man.

We stayed at an expensive summer resort.
We would not say summer expensive resort, so no comma.

Another way to determine if a comma is needed is to mentally put and between the two adjectives. If the result still makes sense, add the comma. In the examples above, a strong and healthy man makes sense, but an expensive and summer resort does not.

Many inexperienced writers run two independent clauses together by using a comma instead of a period. This results in the dreaded run-on sentence or, more technically, a comma splice.

There are several simple remedies:

He walked all the way home. He shut the door.
After he walked all the way home, he shut the door.
He walked all the way home, and he shut the door.

Some writers omit the comma if the clauses are both quite short:

But sometimes a comma in this situation is necessary to avoid confusion.

I saw that she was busy and prepared to leave.
Clearer with comma: I saw that she was busy, and prepared to leave.

Without a comma, the reader is liable to think that "she" was the one who was prepared to leave.

Example: The twins attended Tulane because their parents went there.

This sentence clearly conveys that the main reason the twins went to Tulane was because their parents attended Tulane.
The twins didn't attend Tulane because their parents went there.
This sentence is ambiguous. We're not sure whether they didn't go to Tulane because they wanted to go somewhere other than where their parents went to college, or whether the twins did go to Tulane but for reasons other than that their parents went there.
The twins didn't attend Tulane, because their parents went there.
With the comma before because, the sentence more clearly conveys that the twins desired a college other than the one their parents attended.

When starting a sentence with a dependent clause, use a comma after it.

Follow the same policy with introductory phrases.

However, if the introductory phrase is clear and brief (three or four words), the comma is optional.

But always add a comma if it would avoid confusion.

When an introductory phrase begins with a preposition, a comma may not be necessary even if the phrase contains more than three or four words.

If such a phrase contains more than one preposition, a comma may be used unless a verb immediately follows the phrase.

Between your house on Main Street and my house on Grand Avenue, the mayor's mansion stands proudly.
Between your house on Main Street and my house on Grand Avenue is the mayor's mansion.

Use commas to set off nonessential words, clauses, and phrases (see Who, That, Which, Rule 2b).

In the preceding examples, note the comma after sister and late. Nonessential words, clauses, and phrases that occur midsentence must be enclosed by commas. The closing comma is called an appositive comma. Many writers forget to add this important comma. Following are two instances of the need for an appositive comma with one or more nouns.

Freddy, who has a limp, was in an auto accident.
If we already know which Freddy is meant, the description is not essential.

The boy who has a limp was in an auto accident.
We do not know which boy is meant without further description; therefore,no commas are used.

This leads to a persistent problem. Look at the following sentence:
Example: My brother Bill is here.
Now, see how adding two commas changes that sentence's meaning:
Example: My brother, Bill, is here.
Careful writers and readers understand that the first sentence means I have more than one brother. The commas in the second sentence mean that Bill is my only brother.

Why? In the first sentence, Bill is essential information: it identifies which of my two (or more) brothers I'm speaking of. This is why no commas enclose Bill.

In the second sentence, Bill is nonessential information-whom else but Bill could I mean?-hence the commas.

Comma misuse is nothing to take lightly. It can lead to a train wreck like this:

Example: Mark Twain's book, Tom Sawyer, is a delight.

Because of the commas, that sentence states that Twain wrote only one book. In fact, he wrote more than two dozen of them.

In general, use commas to set off the word too midsentence. However, it is usually not necessary to precede too with a comma at the end of a sentence.

No comma is necessary for just the month and year.

A comma may be advisable with other incomplete dates.

Traditionally, if a person's name is followed by Sr. or Jr., a comma follows the last name: Martin Luther King, Jr. This comma is no longer considered mandatory. However, if a comma does precede Sr. or Jr., another comma must follow the entire name when it appears midsentence.

He said, "I don't care."
"Why," I asked, "don't you care?"
Toni Morrison wrote, "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."

This rule is optional with one-word quotations.

If a quotation is preceded by introductory words such as that, whether, if, a comma is normally not needed.

A comma is not necessary to introduce titles of articles, chapters, songs, etc. (see Quotation Marks, Rule 6).

Use a comma before and after certain introductory words or terms, such as namely, that is, i.e., e.g., including, and for instance, when they are followed by a series of items.
NOTE
The abbreviation i.e. means "that is"; e.g. means "for example."

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The comma has several uses in English grammar, all related to marking-off separate elements within a sentence.

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90 minutes
The second task of your A-Level paper will be an analysis. You will be given a continuous text (Text A) and sometimes a discontinuous text (Text B). Read the document attached.

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Everything you always wanted to know about characterization

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Choose a character presented in the pages 50-100 and analyse the devices the author uses to characterise him/her.
Use the check list attached.
The assignment will show from 7:30 am to 6 pm in our Team and you have to upload the answer to the task using the function 'assignment) during this time window.

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Revise using this webpage.

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Presentational devices include: titles, headings, subtitles, illustrations, captions, white space, the use of colour, and more. Good writing isn't only about content, but about presentation. Besides words, there are many visual tools which writers use, called 'presentational devices'. These have the greatest impact in non-fiction writing, but can also be found elsewhere. When taking this quiz, remember that writers choose their devices with care, always taking account of audience and purpose.

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GCSE presentational devices - includes titles, subtitles, headings

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A piece of writing can be made interesting by using titles, headings and subtitles. Learn about presentational devices in this quiz from Education Quizzes

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Learn vocabulary doing a quiz.

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A literary technique is a specific method which authors use to create effective texts. You may recognise some of these techniques from studying poetry and others you may have learned while studying drama. You will not find all of these techniques used in any one particular text. Think of them as an artist's palette - a writer might use a splash of allegory here, or a little touch of assonance there. Literature would be really rather boring without them.

Test your knowledge on literary techniques with this quiz.

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GCSE literary techniques, using methods to create effective texts

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A literary technique is a specific method which authors use to create effective texts. You may recognise some of these techniques from studying poetry and others you may have learned while studying drama. You will not find all of these techniques used in any one particular text.

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Who are the most memorable characters from fiction? All readers have a favourite, a person who seems as real as the people they see every day. In some cases, a character can seem even more real. Think of Atticus Finch, Scout, Huckleberry Finn, Magwitch, Ron Weasley, or Katniss Everdeen - it can be hard to believe these people are purely the invention of their authors.

This quiz tests the ability to understand character by inference from dialogue, action or description.

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GCSE character - the people who appear in fictional stories

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Who are the most memorable characters from fiction? All readers have a favourite, a person who seems as real as the people they see every day. In some cases, a character can seem even more real.

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Learn the theory.

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Characterization or characterisation is the representation of persons (or other beings or creatures) in narrative and dramatic works. The term character development is sometimes used as a synonym. This representation may include direct methods like the attribution of qualities in description or com…

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Remember that you must have read 150 pages by end of this week.

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Are you bored? Do you have some spare time? Why not organising some good quality time with your family to watch the movie in German?

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Punctuation includes full stops, commas and exclamation marks! Punctuation is an art, rather than a science. Sometimes there is more than one way to punctuate a sentence correctly. At other times, however, certain choices are wrong. One of these is the comma splice, which is when a comma has been used to join two sentences - your teachers have probably mentioned it a few times! Commas are the focus of this punctuation quiz, but a few other rules are tested here as well.

Try this English quiz to see how well you can punctuate.

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GCSE punctuation - where and how to use full stops, commas

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Punctuation includes full stops, commas and exclamation marks! Punctuation is an art, rather than a science. Sometimes there is more than one way to punctuate a sentence correctly. At other times, however, certain choices are wrong.

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Revise Apostrophes & Colons | GCSE English Practice

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Sharpen your punctuation skills with this GCSE English quiz on apostrophes, colons, semicolons and more. Great for building writing confidence.

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Quiz on Punctuation Skills for GCSE English Learners

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Get confident with punctuation using this GCSE English quiz. Find errors in full stops, commas, semicolons, apostrophes, and quotation marks.

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90 minutes
Choose a character from pages 50-100 and analyse two devices the writer uses to characterise him/her.
You must:

use Saxon Genitive correctly;

use clearly identifiable paragraphs;

use specific vocabulary - do the exercises posted under Tuesday, 12 January;

use an opposing (dichotomy) structure: on one hand, on the other hand;

the two devices chosen must render the same effect on the reader and reinforce each other OR must hint to a change in the personality (dynamic character) OR must hint to a controversial personality.

you must mention the type of characterisation (direct, implicit, foil, protagonist etc.

Please get help from the exercises I have posted.
You may re-use the characterisation you have handed in on Monday - but please correct all mistakes.
The assignment will show from 7:30 am to 6 pm in our Team. You have to upload your answer during in this time window using the function 'assignment'.

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You must have read 150 pages by the end of this week.

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Read your answers to the assignment I have returned to you. Make sure you understand my comments.

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Remember that you have to read at least 50 pages of the book every week.

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Remember that you have to read at least 50 pages of the book ever week.
You must have read 200 pages by the end of the coming week.

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Remember that you must read at least 50 pages of the book every week.
You must have read 250 pages by the end of the coming week.

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Do the quiz and note down specific vocabulary and expressions about the Setting.

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The setting is where and when the story takes place. What is the most interesting setting you have found in a work of fiction? A battlefield? A haunted house? Another planet? Some of the best fiction ever written takes place in the most hum-drum environments: a suburban house, a farm, a small village. The eighteenth-century writer, Xavier de Maistre, wrote a travel book set entirely in his bedroom, where he was confined for weeks after being wounded in a duel.

See how much you know about 'setting' by trying this quiz on the subject.

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GCSE setting, where and when a piece of fictional work takes place

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The setting is where and when the story takes place. What is the most interesting setting you have found in a work of fiction? A battlefield? A haunted house? Another planet? Some of the best fiction ever written takes place in the most hum-drum environments: a suburban house, a farm, a small village.

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90 minutes - conference call
Let's put the difference between Setting and Atmosphere in a nutshell: if you were in the fictional text, you would be able to touch the setting and to feel the atmosphere. The setting is something physical, it's real (well, at least in the story), whereas the atmosphere is something subjective, personal and that cannot be touched.
It is possible that the task ask you to analyse both features of a fictional text, however, they are two very different things.
Task:
Analyse the means the author uses to evoke the atmosphere in the pages 100 to 150 of The Circle.
The deadline for uploading your answer under the 'assignment' in our Team is 6 pm and late hand-in until 11:59 pm is permitted.

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Where do you feel the most comfortable? Where was the last place you worried about your safety? The atmosphere of a place like a home or theater is the way that space feels. Similarly, in creative writing, atmosphere is the way the space of your story feels. When you build an atmosphere, you build an emotion within your reader to keep them engaged and reading. Here's an example of atmosphere from Sarah Henning's novel Sea Witch Rising:

The sharpest of things keeps its edge even in the dullest of settings.

And so my coral knife shines through the shadows I call home. Rendered ghost white with magic, the serrated blade is sharp enough to cleave a single hair in two.

Beautiful. Deadly. Perfect.

I only hope it's enough for when they arrive (1).

What do you feel after reading this excerpt? Likely, you feel foreboding or danger and worry for the character. These emotions are partially due to the atmosphere, to the fact that this story opens in a place filled with shadows and a deadly knife. The setting and object are working together to build the atmosphere.

Atmosphere and mood in creative writing are very similar. In fact, the terms overlap. Both refer to the emotion of a scene. Both influence the other. The difference is atmosphere is more about the emotion of the setting, the space of the scene, and mood is more about the emotion of the overall scene. You can't have one without the other, and the terms are often used interchangeably. Which term you use isn't nearly as important as making sure your scene leaves an emotion lingering with your reader.

Build Atmosphere through Description

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Where do you feel the most comfortable? Where was the last place you worried about your safety? The atmosphere of a place like a home or theater is the way that space feels. Similarly, in creative writing, atmosphere is the way the space of your story feels.

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Definition of Atmosphere

A literary technique, atmosphere is a type of feeling that readers get from a narrative, based on details such as setting, background, objects, and foreshadowing. A mood can serve as a vehicle for establishing atmosphere. In literary works, atmosphere refers to emotions or feelings an author conveys to his readers through description of objects and settings, such as in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter tales, in which she spins a whimsical and enthralling atmosphere. Bear in mind that atmosphere may vary throughout a literary piece.

Difference Between Atmosphere and Mood

Many people use both terms interchangeably, as there is no concrete difference between them. However, in literature we find a mild difference. This is because atmosphere is a broader term, and may be set by a certain venue, such as a theater.

However, mood is a more specific and narrow term, concerning emotions of a certain individual or group of individuals, and it does not incorporate the emotions or feelings radiating throughout a venue. Simply, mood is about internal feelings, while atmosphere exists at a particular spot. Besides, a mood contributes for building up the entire atmosphere of a narrative.

Examples of Atmosphere in Literature

Example #1: An Unspoken Hunger (By Terry Tempest Williams)

"It is an unspoken hunger we deflect with knives - one avocado between us, cut neatly in half, twisted then separated from the large wooden pit. With the green fleshy boats in hand, we slice vertical strips from one end to the other. Vegetable planks. We smother the avocado with salsa, hot chiles at noon in the desert. We look at each other and smile, eating avocados with sharp silver blades, risking the blood of our tongues repeatedly."

Here, Williams creates a dangerous atmosphere, where she presents the hazards of knives and avocados. In fact, when an author tries to establish atmosphere by using objects, these objects represent unspoken reality. Besides, appearance of two characters also adds to a sexually charged atmosphere.

Example #2: The Vision (By Dean Koontz)

"The woman raised her hands and stared at them; stared through them.
Her voice was soft but tense. 'Blood on his hands.' Her own hands were clean and pale."

When we read these lines, they immediately bring to our mind an emotional response, and draw our attention. This is exactly what atmosphere does in a literary work.

Example #3: The Raven (By Edgar Allen Poe)

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door -
"Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -
Only this and nothing more."

In this excerpt, the experience of readers is suspenseful and exciting, as they anticipate horror due to feelings within the narrative. As we see, this character hears tapping on the door and, when opens it, he finds nobody there, only darkness; making the atmosphere fearful and tense.

Example #4: A Tale of Two Cities (By Charles Dickens)

Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two Cities, creates an important atmosphere whenever a major event occurs in a plot. For instance, we see a ghostly mood of a messenger's entrance in Dover mail, which indicates things of the future. Then, Dickens builds up an atmosphere through the actions of his characters in the room of Dr. Manetas.

Within this, the author gives attributes to these places with different concepts and ideas. For instance, when Jerry goes to find Dover mail, to convey a message to Mr. Lorry, Dickens creates a gloomy and mysterious atmosphere, alluding to the darker end. Another type of atmosphere we see in the courtroom towards the end. During the scene, you would notice the public is searching and buzzing for victim after victim. Thus Dickens links the atmosphere of this place with death.

Function of Atmosphere

The purpose of establishing atmosphere is to create emotional effect. It makes a literary work lively, fascinating, and interesting by keeping the audience more engaged. It appeals to the readers' senses by making the story more real, allowing them to comprehend the idea easily. Since atmosphere makes the audience feel in an indirect way, writers can convey harsh feelings with less severity. Writers control the impact of prevailing atmosphere by changing the description of settings and objects.

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Definition, Usage and a list of Atmosphere Examples in literature. Atmosphere is a type of feelings that readers get from a narrative based on details such as settings, background, objects and foreshadowing, etc.

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In literature, mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting (locale and surroundings in which the narrative takes place), attitude (of the narrator and of the characters in the narrative), and descriptions. Though atmosphere and setting are connected, they may be considered separately to a degree. Atmosphere is the aura of mood that surrounds the story. It is to fiction what the sensory level is to poetry or mise-en-scene is to cinema. Mood is established in order to affect the reader emotionally and psychologically and to provide a feeling for the narrative.

Mood is generally created through several different things. Setting, which provides the physical location of the story, is used in order to create a background in which the story takes place. Different settings can affect the mood of a story differently and usually supports or conflicts with the other content of the story in some way. For example, the desert may be a setting for a cowboy story and may generate a mood of solitude, desolation, and struggle, among other possible associations. The attitude of the narrator is another element that helps generate mood. As the reader is dependent on the narrator's perspective of the story, they see the story through their lenses, feeling the way the narrator feels about what happens or what is being described. Embedded in the attitude of a narrator are the feelings and emotions which make it up. A similar element that goes into generating mood is diction, that is, the choice and style of words the writer uses. Diction conveys a sensibility as well as portrays the content of a story in specific colors, thus affecting the way the reader feels about it.

Tone and mood are not the same. The tone of a piece of literature is the speaker's or narrator's attitude towards the subject, rather than what the reader feels, as in mood. Mood is the general feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates within the reader. Mood is produced most effectively through the use of setting, theme, voice and tone. Tone can indicate the narrator's mood, but the overall mood comes from the totality of the written work, even in first-person narratives. The effect a literary work has upon the reader is subjective and produces different associations, while the text made by the author is presented to the reader as an objective thing. The mood is suggested by the elements utilized by the author, but relies on the subjective response from the reader.

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In literature, mood is the atmosphere of the narrative. Mood is created by means of setting (locale and surroundings in which the narrative takes place), attitude (of the narrator and of the characters in the narrative), and descriptions. Though atmosphere and setting are connected, they may be considered separately to a degree.

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Revise how to structure an analysis.

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Make sure you prove that you have understood the task by referring to it in your introduction.

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State clearly what you are focusing on. Have you identified a presentational device that the writer uses to evoke the mood? State it!

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If you have identified an enumeration explain that it is a stylistic device. Stylistic devices are a group of the rhetorical devices. Rhetorical devices belong to the more general linguistic devices.

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Where is the device that you have identified? What line? Quote it!

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The most important part of your analysis. What is the effect on the reader?
Do never say that 'you think' because you would be questioning the validity of your these. You have an idea and you prove it through the evidence.

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The third task on your A-Level paper will be a comment in which you will be required to take a stance. In this part you will have to work 'beyond the text'.
For an overview of the possible tasks and instructions check the information on pages 332-335 and 364-365 of your Textbook.

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Learn by heart all possible tasks and instructions on pages 332-335 and 364-365 of your Textbook.

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90 minutes
Read the text on p 182 of your Texbook and work through following ex on p 183.

ex 1

ex 2 a), b) and c)

ex 3 a), b) and c)

ex 4 - find help below - Has Facebook changed the concept of 'friendship'? Discuss this question in writing using as many of the highlighted words from the text as possible.

Take a pic of your answers and upload it under the 'assignment' in our Team. For ex 4 you may upload your answer as a .pdf or an .odt document. Your answer must be uploaded between 8 am and 6 pm, it will be possible to hand in late until 11:59 pm.

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'Discuss' is one of the possible instructions on an A-Level paper. Basically, you are supposed to argue to convince.
An argument is a series of point a writer or a speaker makes to convince someone. Possible points of an argument may be:

opinion

facts

rhetorical question

statistics

anecdotal evidence

bias

counter argument

Remember to structure your argument in paragraphs.

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90 minutes - online
I will be online but I am not sure I will be able to be on a video conference because I will be in school.

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Follow these steps:

Read and understand Writing an argumentative text on pp 188-189 of Context;

Read again the Criteria for discussing an issue and writing a comment uploaded on padlet under Monday, 25 January.

Read and understand SF 34 Argumentative Writing pp 318-320 of Context.

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1. Read the text on pp 192-193 of Context and do ex 1 and 2 in writing in a .doc.

2. Read and understand the Fact File on p 193.

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The third task on the A-Level paper will be a comment. In this task you will have to work beyond the text - usually expressing your opinion and taking a stance on a given issue.
Possible instructions within this task may be:

comment on

discuss

justify.

Moreover, you will have to structure your answer according to a given type, like:

Comment

Letter to the Editor

Speech

Blog Entry

Article.

Make sure you memorise this information.
Today's task will be a Comment in a form of a Blog Entry:
As there have been some cases of bullying and vandalism at your school, the school board wants to introduce CCTV cameras inside and outside the school building (except for the private toilet cubicles) to monitor and protect the students.
As a student representative you are on a committee that will be heard before the school board's final decision.
Write an entry for the school blog discussing the pros and cons of surveillance at school.

Keep in mind that you are writing for your fellow students. Consider your audience and use the appropriate register.

There is some help below on how to write a Blog Entry.

Upload your answer between 8 am and 6 pm under the 'Assignment' in our Team. Late hand-in is permitted until 11:59 pm.

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Re-use your argument for your Blog Entry of yesterday. Today's focus is to learn to structure the same argument for a different type of answer: an article. Task:
As there have been some cases of bullying and vandalism at your school, the school board wants to introduce CCTV cameras inside and outside the school building (except for the private toilet cubicles) to monitor and protect the students.
As a student representative you are on a committee that will be heard before the school board's final decision.
Write an article for the school magazine discussing pros and cons of the proposed idea.

Keep in mind that you are writing for the school community that includes neighbours, sponsors, teachers, managers and parents and you have to use the appropriate register.

There is some help below on how to write an article.

Upload your answer between 8 am and 6 pm under 'Assignment' in our Team. Late hand-in is permitted until 23:59.

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