What is imaginative writing?
Imaginative writing is a type of writing where the purpose is to entertain, describe, reflect, encourage reflection or explore. Personal experience can be used to shape an imaginative response. An imaginative response may also be a response written in the style of the text set for study or that draws specifically on the text set for study.
Form: There are many possible forms for an imaginative response. You may write a narrative, a play script, a screenplay, a journal or diary entry, a description etc.
Audience: will vary according to purpose and form.
Language features:
Form: There are many possible forms for an imaginative response. You may write a narrative, a play script, a screenplay, a journal or diary entry, a description etc.
Audience: will vary according to purpose and form.
Language features:
- the language must be appropriate for the intended audience;
- the language and style adopted depends on the purpose and form to meaningfully communicate ideas and engage with the intended audience;
- the stylistic features of the form must be adopted. All written texts have recognisable forms;
- may employ imagery and metaphors;
- narratives need to draw on plot conventions;
- may incorporate dialogue;
- can use a variety of narrative viewpoints.