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How does the writer use language to describe the effect of the hurricane? Include: Words and phrases Language features and techniques Sentence forms Annotate the extract and write a PEELA paragraph in response to the question. HOME

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How does the writer use language to describe the effect of the hurricane?

Include:
Words and phrases
Language features and techniques
Sentence forms

Annotate the extract and write a PEELA paragraph in response to the question. HOME LEARNING: Small Island<br>
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Small Island by Andrea Levy

No living person should ever see the underside of a tree. The roots – that gnarled, tangled mess of prongs that plummet unruly into the earth in search of sustenance. As I fled from the schoolhouse after the hurricane had passed, the world was upside down. The fields to my left, to my right, undulated with this black and wretched chaos.
Trees ripped from the land that held them fast for years. Branches that should have been seeking light snuffled now in the dirt – their fruit splattered about like gunshot. Tin roofs were on the ground while the squeaking wheels of carts rotated high in the air, disordered and topsy-turvy. I stumbled through this estranged landscape alarmed as a blind man who can now see.<br>
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The narrator uses similes to liken the destruction of the island after the hurricane to that of a warzone. She comments that the fruit from the trees was now “splattered about like gunshot.” The use of this simile immediately creates an image for the reader of destruction and a sense of fear. This is highlighted by the use of the word “gunshot” which leads the reader to consider the hurricane as dangerous, destructive, violent and life-threatening event. Furthermore the use of “gunshot” combined with the word “splattered” suggests the island has been left in a chaotic mess. EXAMPLE RESPONSE How many marks is this worth?<br>