Figurative and Descriptive Language - Piano Rock by Hayley Hender https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11 Made with hop, skip and a jump. en-us 2019-02-12 16:03:40 UTC 2026-03-20 09:23:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f40e.png "Example of descriptive/figurative language" hmhender16 https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616352949 Describe why you choose this sample and how it paints a picture in the readers mind.
Add an image to complement your example.]]> 2023-06-06 23:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616352949 Chapter 1 hmhender16 https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616353797 2023-06-06 23:27:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616353797 "to watch the landscape slip by." hmhender16 https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616392311 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616392311 "while I raced around " https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616394446 The phrase "race around" is used in Car racing not running around.

]]> 2023-06-07 00:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616394446 The house looked lonely all on its own. https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395060 Houses aren't living so they cant feel lonely]]> 2023-06-07 00:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395060 "The lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face" deejangam https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395369 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395369 "Watch the landscape slip by." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395402 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395402 "Mum, dad and me, I was little, about three." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395873 It is Asonance, it rhymes]]> 2023-06-07 00:25:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616395873 "just made it home before it bucketed down https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396221 there arent actually buckets but the author is saying it is really rainy. ]]> 2023-06-07 00:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396221 ' https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396387 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
By Nik

]]> 2023-06-07 00:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396387 "slate, shale and schist" elliotpeters https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396550 "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]]> 2023-06-07 00:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616396550 Mum, Dad and me. I am liitle, about three https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616397326 It is Asonance which is like rhyming which they have used in this quote . ]]> 2023-06-07 00:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616397326 "we scrambled over lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616397499 this is a beutiful simile. the logs arent really made of velvet, but the author wanted to describe the texture of the wood.

]]> 2023-06-07 00:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616397499 "The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water" deejangam https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398870 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. ]]> 2023-06-07 00:28:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398870 "We scrambled over lake washed logs, as soft as grey velvet" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398977 This is comparing the smooth/softness of the lake-logs with velvet this makes a clear picture on how smooth the logs were]]> 2023-06-07 00:28:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398977 "I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on the hill https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398999 This paints a picture in the readers mind as if the house had feelings. It also describes the surrounding of the house by itself.]]> 2023-06-07 00:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616398999 "While we watched, the moon threw a white sheet over the water. https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616399931 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616399931 "The sandflies were biting like mad" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616399976 Mad is an emotion not a way of biting and this in not the correct use of the word "mad"]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616399976 'After a while it grew quite, really quite' https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400154 Nothing can grow quite but all the sounds around you can slowly fade away.]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:31 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400154 It bucketed down https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400257 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400257 "Watch the landscape skip by." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400530 It wasnt the land dissapering or slip by I think he refered to the sunset and how it was becoming night]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400530 "I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400582 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]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400582 "the moon came up and painted a white sheet over the lake" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400714 The author is saying that the moon is reflecting over the lake]]> 2023-06-07 00:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400714 "I thought it looked lonely sitting on the hill alone" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400836 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.]]> 2023-06-07 00:30:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400836 "We scrambled across lake washed logs, soft as grey velvet." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400939 This is a simile, this piece of writing is comparing something to something else, so that the reader to know what it feels like]]> 2023-06-07 00:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616400939 "When the clouds overhead turned black" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401066 2023-06-07 00:30:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401066 "The stones slid towards the water as we walked along the lake's edge - slate, shale, and schist." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401161 The author used this to emphasise diversity and difference of all the rocks in the river by using alliteration with the three S's.]]> 2023-06-07 00:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401161 "As we looked over the water the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401302 This is an example of personification because lakes don't have faces, and they can't sigh.]]> 2023-06-07 00:30:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616401302 "The lake sighed and a sullen look came over it's face" jemimawright https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616402019 Personification, as lakes can't actually sigh or look sad but it paints a picture in the readers head about a dark lake.]]> 2023-06-07 00:31:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616402019 "while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616403395 this metaphor was used by the author to describe the white light of the moon shining over the water.]]> 2023-06-07 00:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2616403395 "The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lake' https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617489572 2023-06-07 20:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617489572 The house looked lonely all on its own https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617490677 Houses arent actually alive so they dont have emotions . The author meant by this that the house was sitting there alone]]> 2023-06-07 20:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617490677 "The moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617490796 The moon can't lay sheets over things but it can make beautiful white reflections over water and other reflective objects or elements.]]> 2023-06-07 20:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617490796 "I thought it looked lonely slitting on the hill alone" elliotpeters https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491090 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 ]]> 2023-06-07 20:47:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491090 "when the rain stopped, the big lilac bush by the back door dripped and dripped as it settled in for the night." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491256 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491256 Looming up in the moonlight sat piano rock https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491275 Rocks don't sit its really good writing explaining how lifelike the rock looked]]> 2023-06-07 20:48:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491275 "the lake sighed and a sullen look came over its face." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491530 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491530 "The next house was a paddock away, not next door like the city." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491539 It is comparing the country side to the city which is descriptive.]]> 2023-06-07 20:48:54 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491539 "The rain bucketed down" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491711 Rain can't actually bucket down, so the author means that it was raining really heavily.]]> 2023-06-07 20:49:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491711 "And it grew quiet, really quiet then it went black, coal black https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491844 2023-06-07 20:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491844 As we looked out over the water the lake sighed. https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491852 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491852 "While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491969 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617491969 'While we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water.' https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492013 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492013 "I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492076 2023-06-07 20:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492076 The Moon came up and threw a white sheet over the lakee https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492485 The moon cant throw a white sheet over the lake the author is meaning the reflection ]]> 2023-06-07 20:50:50 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492485 "Mum, Dad and me. I am little, about three." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492618 This is an example of an assonate. The author used this to show what the family was like.  ]]> 2023-06-07 20:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617492618 'The big Ab was already asleep in the engine shed' https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493531 A car can't go to sleep but the author wanted to describe it. The author wanted to describe a quiet dormant shed.]]> 2023-06-07 20:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493531 "I thought it looked lonely sitting by itself on a little hill." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493543 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.]]> 2023-06-07 20:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493543 "The moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493593 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. ]]> 2023-06-07 20:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617493593 "Slate, shale and schist." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494327 The author used an alliteration. 
"Slate, shale and schist."
He used this to tell you what type of rocks they were.]]> 2023-06-07 20:54:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494327 "while we watched, the moon came up and threw a white sheet over the water." elliotpeters https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494465 This is personification because they are giving an object human traits. ]]> 2023-06-07 20:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494465 "Coal Black" https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494559 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]]> 2023-06-07 20:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494559 Big AB was already asleep in the engine shed. https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494756 The auther described the tracter as a living thing ]]> 2023-06-07 20:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494756 "while we watched, the moon came up and thew a white sheet over the water." https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494995 This is personification. They used this to paint a picture in your head of the moonlight on the water.]]> 2023-06-07 20:55:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617494995 When the rain stopped the big lilac bush dripped and dripped as it settled for the night. https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617495310 A bush doesn't settle into the night so the author is making the bush a human.]]> 2023-06-07 20:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hmhender16/Room11/wish/2617495310