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Language techniques.

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    Language techniques in The Woman in Black.
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  • True or false? "The tug of war was over" is an example of a metaphor.
    TRUE
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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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  • 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? "my arms feeling as if they had been dragged from their sockets" is an example of personification.
    FALSE: it's a simile
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  • Finish the sentence. "Personification is ..."
    when a writer gives human characteristics to something non-human.
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  • Finish the sentence: "A metaphor is..."
    when describe something by saying it's something else.
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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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  • Finish the sentence: "A simile is..."
    when we compare two things, using like or as.
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  • What punctuation can end a sentence?
    a full stop, an exclamation mark, or a question mark
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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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  • The effect of the strong verbs "hauled and strained and tugged" is that...
    we see Arthur Kipps is determined because he works very hard to get Spider out of the mud.
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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 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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  • True or false? "I hauled and strained and tugged" is an example of a triple.
    TRUE
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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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