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"while we watched, the moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water."

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"while we watched, the moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water."

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This is personification. They used this to paint a picture in your head of the moonlight on the water.

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The author used an alliteration.
"Slate, shale and schist."
He used this to tell you what type of rocks they were.

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"while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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"while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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This is personification because they are giving an object human traits.

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'The big Ab was already asleep in the engine shed'

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'The big Ab was already asleep in the engine shed'

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A car can't go to sleep but the author wanted to describe it. The author wanted to describe a quiet dormant shed.

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When the rain stopped the big lilac bush dripped and dripped as it settled for the night.

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When the rain stopped the big lilac bush dripped and dripped as it settled for the night.

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A bush doesn't settle into the night so the author is making the bush a human.

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill."

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill."

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A house can not be lonely as it isn't alive and cannot process that kind of emotion. The house house also cant 'sit' on a hill as the house it simply placed there. This is a great use of personification from the author.

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"I thought it looked lonely slitting on the hill alone"

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"I thought it looked lonely slitting on the hill alone"

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Houses don't feel lonely, its just that the house had no other houses next to it. This is personification because its giving a object thats not living emotions

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Big AB was already asleep in the engine shed.

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Big AB was already asleep in the engine shed.

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The auther described the tracter as a living thing

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"slate, shale and schist" is alliteration because it has 3 Ss. Alliteration is when three or more words in a row, ( unless there are words like a and an I and is inbetween ) are next to each other

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"While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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"While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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This is an example of personification, as the moon can't actually throw a white sheet. The 'white sheet' is the reflection of the sun.

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The air is not actually filled with coal, the author is just comparing the darkness of coal with the darkness of the night, this is a simile

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"grew" is for something to grow higher or wider not for it to got darker.

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"And it grew quiet, really quiet then it went black, coal black 

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"And it grew quiet, really quiet then it went black, coal black 

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"The next house was a paddock away, not next door like the city."

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"The next house was a paddock away, not next door like the city."

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It is comparing the country side to the city which is descriptive.

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"The moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water"

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"The moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water"

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This is personification as the moon is not able to throw a white sheet it also shows how when the moon comes up it silences the water and calms the surroundings.

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'While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water.'

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'While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water.'

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A moon can't throw a white "sheet" over water. The author wrote the phrase to paint a picture of a bright reflection which is
...personification.

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"while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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"while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water."

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this metaphor was used by the author to describe the white light of the moon shining over the water.

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"Mum, Dad and me. I am little, about three." 

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"Mum, Dad and me. I am little, about three." 

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This is an example of an assonate. The author used this to show what the family was like.

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This is an example of personification, as a house is unable to be lonely, but it is actually not lonely in fact it is just distanced from all other houses.

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill."

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill."

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As we looked out over the water the lake sighed.

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As we looked out over the water the lake sighed.

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It is painting a picture in the reader's mind as if the lake was a person and how they have feelings and sullen looks.

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"when the rain stopped, the big lilac bush by the back door dripped and dripped as it settled in for the night."

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"when the rain stopped, the big lilac bush by the back door dripped and dripped as it settled in for the night."

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the big lilac bush dosent "settle" into the night for real, this pesonification is just the authors way of describing the lilac bush nestling into the dark.

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The clouds didn't really turn black, just grey.

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Mad is an emotion not a way of biting and this in not the correct use of the word "mad"

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"the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face."

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"the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face."

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This is an example of personication, as the lake is a lake, (not a living being.) it cannot sigh as it is just a mass of water surrounded by land. This is also the case for the sullen look tat came over its face, since it is just a body of water it does not face a face.

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Looming up in the moonlight sat piano rock

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Looming up in the moonlight sat piano rock

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Rocks don't sit its really good writing explaining how lifelike the rock looked

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It wasnt the land dissapering or slip by I think he refered to the sunset and how it was becoming night

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"As we looked over the water the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face."

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"As we looked over the water the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face."

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This is an example of personification because lakes don't have faces, and they can't sigh.

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"the moon came up and painted a white sheet over the lake"

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"the moon came up and painted a white sheet over the lake"

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The author is saying that the moon is reflecting over the lake

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'After a while it grew quite, really quite'

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'After a while it grew quite, really quite'

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Nothing can grow quite but all the sounds around you can slowly fade away.

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"We scrambled across lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet."

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"We scrambled across lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet."

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This is a simile, this piece of writing is comparing something to something else, so that the reader to know what it feels like

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Describe why you choose this sample and how it paints a picture in the readers mind.
Add an image to complement your example.

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There aren't buckets in the sky so it can't actually bucket down. The author wanted to paint a picture of how rainy it was.

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water"

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water"

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The moon didn't actually throw a white sheet over the water, meaning the reader can visualise a reflection of white on the water. This is an example of personification.

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"The lake sighed and a sullen look came over it's face"

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"The lake sighed and a sullen look came over it's face"

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Personification, as lakes can't actually sigh or look sad but it paints a picture in the readers head about a dark lake.

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The Moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lakee

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The Moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lakee

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The moon cant throw a white sheet over the lake the author is meaning the reflection

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A house doesn't have feelings or can sit so the quote:
'I thought it looked lonely sitting on the hill by itself.'
...is personification
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"The stones slid towards the water as we walked along the lake's edge - slate, shale, and schist."

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"The stones slid towards the water as we walked along the lake's edge - slate, shale, and schist."

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The author used this to emphasise diversity and difference of all the rocks in the river by using alliteration with the three S's.

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water"

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water"

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The moon can't lay sheets over things but it can make beautiful white reflections over water and other reflective objects or elements.

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill"

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill"

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Houses don't have feeling so they can't feel lonely.
Its used as a quote :
'I thought It look lonely sitting on the hill alone'
Its Personification

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on the hill 

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on the hill 

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This paints a picture in the readers mind as if the house had feelings. It also describes the surrounding of the house by itself.

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"While we watched, the moon threw a white sheet over the water.

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"While we watched, the moon threw a white sheet over the water.

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The moon could not throw a sheet over the water so this is personification. The author means that the moonlight was reflected over the water.

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The writer meant they were watching the land while they passed it. It looked like it was falling because they were watching it closely and imagining it falling to the side.

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"We scrambled over lake washed logs, as soft as grey velvet"

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"We scrambled over lake washed logs, as soft as grey velvet"

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This is comparing the smooth/softness of the lake-logs with velvet this makes a clear picture on how smooth the logs were

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Mum, Dad and me. I am liitle, about three

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Mum, Dad and me. I am liitle, about three

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It is Asonance which is like rhyming which they have used in this quote .

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"just made it home before it bucketed down

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"just made it home before it bucketed down

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there arent actually buckets but the author is saying it is really rainy.

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"we scrambled over lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet"

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"we scrambled over lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet"

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this is a beutiful simile. the logs arent really made of velvet, but the author wanted to describe the texture of the wood.

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting on the hill alone"

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"I thought it looked lonely sitting on the hill alone"

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Houses don't have emotions as they are just objects. This quote is personification. They author used this because there were no other houses in sight.

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The phrase "race around" is used in Car racing not running around.

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"The lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face"

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"The lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face"

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This is an example of personification i.e it hasn't actually sighed. We as the reader think about how the lake would sigh and its face, a great prompt to visualise.

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"Mum, dad and me, I was little, about three."

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"Mum, dad and me, I was little, about three."

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It is Asonance, it rhymes

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Houses arent actually alive so they dont have emotions . The author meant by this that the house was sitting there alone

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The moon cant throw anything let alone a white sheet but the author used this to create an image in the readers mind of the moons pale white reflection on the l

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lake'

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"The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lake'

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the phrase slip isn't what the author actually means, as a landscape can actually slip by. So therefore it paints a picture in the readers mind that the landscape is slipping away.

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Houses aren't living so they cant feel lonely

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Rain can't actually bucket down, so the author means that it was raining really heavily.