Lesson overview

Detailed practice
Story - Narrative
Young adult and up
dracula
twilight
gothic
vampire fiction
analysing writing style
style rewrite
compare and contrast
bram stoker
stephanie meyer
word groups
description
expansion
connectors
cohesive devices
active environment
systematic rewrite
horror
evoking emotion
sentence structure
qualities
word choice
verb groups
voice
noun groups
remix
describing senses
narrative
In this lesson we do a systematic comparison of two passages from Bram Stoker's Dracula and Stephanie Meyer's Twilight. We look at processes, qualities, expansions and connective devices in both passages, and work up to rewriting each passage in the style of the other. The most interesting insight that comes for this lesson is the way that Stoker makes the environment an active agent in the scene.