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What must a sentence always begin with?

a capital letter

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What's wrong...? "the women in black by susan hill"

The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

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True or false? "The treacherous quicksand that tried to pull us down into itself" is an example of a simile.

FALSE: it's personification

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True or false? "The tug of war was over" is an example of a metaphor.

TRUE

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lifesaver

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Finish the sentence: "A simile is..."

when we compare two things, using like or as.

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The effect of the personification "the treacherous mud that tried to pull us both down into itself" is

it is as if the mud has a mind of its own and wants to take Spider from Arthur.

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The effect of a very long sentence with lots of commas is

that it feels like something is happening for along time with no break.

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True or false. "I felt my grip on the slippery wet fur and wet flesh of the dog" is an example of sensory imagery.

TRUE

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What punctuation can end a sentence?

a full stop, an exclamation mark, or a question mark

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True or false? 'pressed', 'lunged', 'tugged', and 'gasping' are examples of strong adjectives.

FALSE: they're strong verbs

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Finish the sentence: "A metaphor is..."

when describe something by saying it's something else.

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What word means "a short piece of text taken from a book"?

a passage

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The effect of the metaphor "the tug of war" is

we can see that Spider is really stuck and Arthur has to work very hard to get her out.

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