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NAME:…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… DATE:……………………… Writing: Exploring descriptive writing techniques continued 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXyo68s-f1E&t=35s 2. The following text comes from the beginning of Great Expectations (1861), Charles Dickens. Dickens is one of the greatest writers in the English language. He was particularly skilled at writing descriptions of people. In this extract the narrator of the book, Pip, an orphan of about eight years old, goes to the local graveyard to look at the graves of his parents and brothers and sisters. “Hold your noise!” cried a terrible voice, as a man started up from among the graves at the side of the church porch. “Keep still, you little devil, or I’ll cut your throat!” A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg. A man with no hat, and with broken shoes, and with an old rag tied round his head. A man who has been soaked in water ,and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin. “Oh! Don’t cut my throat, sir,” I pleaded in terror. “Pray don’t do it, sir.” a) How many adjectives does Dickens use in this description? Underline them ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………............... b) How many main verbs does Dickens use in this description? Circle them. …………………………… c) what word could be used instead of fearful? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… d) What does the description of the man’s clothes tell us about him? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… e) Why does Dickens use a semi-colon after the word briars? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… f) Is there anything surprising about answers to a) and b)? …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3. Rewrite the second paragraph as if you were a television journalist reporting about the man you have seen in the graveyard. Use more adjectives and vary your grammatical structures. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………