Analysing texts, Year 7: more practice

Sight

提示Think about which feature of the market the words pick out.

为什么Colour words build a picture in the mind's eye. Imagery can also call on sound, smell, taste and touch.

Onomatopoeia

提示Say the word aloud: it is an echo of the thing itself.

为什么Writers use these words to let the reader hear a scene, so a description feels immediate.

Simile

提示Look for a signpost word joining the two things.

为什么The word 'like' signals the comparison. A metaphor would say her laugh WAS a bell.

Personification

提示A hidden word inside it names what the thing is made to resemble.

为什么The wind cannot whisper, but the phrase makes it seem to. It helps the reader hear the sound of the wind.

swallowed

提示Which word is something only a creature with a mouth does?

为什么Swallowing is something living things do, so the verb makes the sea seem hungry and dangerous.

B

提示Count the full stops.

为什么B weaves the quotation into the writer's own grammar, so it reads as one smooth sentence. A leaves it hanging as a separate sentence.

It only repeats the quotation instead of explaining it

提示Has anything new been said?

为什么Good analysis says what the words suggest, such as that the room feels unwelcoming, not just that they say it again.

Lines 2 and 4

提示Say the last word of each line aloud.

为什么'Door' and 'floor' share their ending sound. 'Mat' and 'attic' do not rhyme with anything.

Speech

提示Look at what is inside the inverted commas.

为什么What a character says reveals their personality, here someone aggressive and threatening.

'A grey drizzle clung to the empty street'

提示Look at the weather and the colour words.

为什么Grey, drizzle and empty all build a dull, lonely mood. 'Danced' and 'sunlight' make the first sound cheerful.