1. ‘the snow-powder lift
and travel like a funeral train’
(i) What does this suggest
about the snow?
(ii) Why did the writer
describe the snow this way?
2. ‘The blackish sea
churned and champed, seeming to bite at the snow’
(i) Which word suggests
the sea is a person?
(ii) What effect do the
two words ‘churned’ and ‘champed’ create?
Practice Exercise 1
And as you returned over the turf where the short,
download cowslips nodded, you saw to the east still another island, a tiny one
this time, like the calf of the cow. This tiny island also belonged to the
islander.
Thus it seems that even islands like to keep each
other company.
Our islander loved his island very much. In early
spring, the little ways and glades were a snow of blackthorn, a vivid white
among the Celtic stillness of close green and grey rock, blackbirds calling out
in the whiteness their first long, triumphant calls.
The Man
Who Loved Islands by D.H. Lawrence
1. ‘like the calf of the
cow’
What does this suggest about the
difference between the two islands?
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2. Quote an expression
that the expression that suggests that the islands are like people.
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Practice Exercise 2
I am lost in a snowstorm. The wing shrieks, blows
stinging sheets of snow into my eyes. I stagger through layers of shifting
white. I call for help but the wind drowns my cries. I fall and lie panting on
the snow, lost in the white, the wind wailing in my ears. I watch the snow
erase my fresh footprints. I’m a ghost now, I think, a ghost with no
footprints. I cry out again, hope fading like my footprints.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
1. Identify the word(s) or
phrase which suggest that the wind is
(i) a person
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(ii) very loud
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2. ‘…blows stinging sheets
of snow into my eyes.’
(i) Which words have the
same sound?
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(ii) Why does the writer
describe the snow in this way?
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3. ‘…a ghost with no
footprints’
What does this phrase (metaphor) suggest
about the protagonist?
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The End
