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Apes Stomp Descriptive Techniques
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Revision of the 'Descriptive Techniques' needed when 'Writing to Describe'
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His mouth was dry, his heart was pounding in his chest and something within him was crying out.
Giving an innate object a human characteristic
Using three examples
describe something else NOT using like or as.
2
He heard the young men walking towards him and could see them closing in from both sides.
Emotive Language
Alliteration
Senses (5)
3
He could hear their feet drawing closer...
click, click, click.
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
4
The darkness protect him, but only for so long.
Metaphor
Personification
5
His fear was great and instant.
Metaphor
Senses
Simile
Powerful verbs, adjectives or adverbs
6
He discovered a dark corner, which was
seemingly
secure
and
safe.
Alliteration
Emotive Language
Triples
Pronoun
7
His wife could be made a widow, his children made fatherless.
Triples
Emotive Language
Sympathy
8
He plunged blindly into the wilderness of wire and iron.
Metaphor
Emotive Language
Personification
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It was too late to run for the bus; it went down the dark street like an island of safety.
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
