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How has the writer used language to describe the mountian area?

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How has the writer used language to describe the mountian area?

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The spring flowers on the mountains ‘peep out from their hiding places’. The writer uses the verb ‘peep’ to tell us that the flowers look as if they are peering around them. The metaphor ‘The sun has flattened the land into submission’ makes it sound as if the sun is so hot it has squashed the land flat.

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The writer’s choice of language to describe the mountain area creates contrasting tones for different seasons. In spring, the flowers are said to ‘peep out from their hiding places’. This personifies the flowers, implying they have been secretly hiding all through the winter, lying dormant beneath the ground just waiting for the right time of year to blossom. When it is warm enough, they show tiny signs of life by tentatively pushing their way through the earth and peeking around. Language used to describe the mountain area in the summer is far more negative. ‘The sun has flattened the land into submission’ conveys the sun is so intense that it has overwhelmed the land, crushing any sign of green life out of it so that all that now remains is scorched brown.

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The flowers ‘peep out’ when they grow, and the word ‘peep’ means they look like they are looking around. It also says the sun has ‘flattened the land’, which is a metaphor.

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The writer says the mountain flowers ‘peep out from their hiding places’ in spring. This personifies the flowers, implying they have been buried all through the winter, just waiting for the right time of year to grow. The verb ‘peep’ suggests that now it is warm enough, the flowers can peek out of the ground and show themselves. The writer’s choice of language for the mountain area in the summer is more negative. ‘The sun has flattened the land into submission’ is a metaphor to convey how the heat has beaten all the life out of the land so that everything is now brown.