Fantasy Feature Detective

Name:

Date:

Feature Hunt

Read the fantasy extract supplied by your teacher. Identify each feature and record brief evidence from the text.

1. Setting: Where and when does the story happen?

2. Characters: Who is important in the extract? What does a character want or need?

3. Quest or problem: What must be achieved, overcome or solved?

4. Magical object: What magical item appears? What does it make possible?

5. Resolution: How is the problem solved, changed or left at the end?

Choose one technique: sensory description, vivid verbs, comparison or suspense. Give evidence and explain its effect.

6. Technique: Which technique does the writer use?

Technique: ________________________________

7. Evidence and effect: What words or sentence show this technique? How does it affect the reader?

8. One fantasy feature I understand now is…

9. One question I have about writing fantasy is…