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Describe it, in exactly 15 words.
The North Pole: silvery and glacial,
majestic and haunting…the kind of
place that lives long in the memory.
The snow – powdery and everywhere -
has been criss-crossed by sleigh
trails like deep slashes in a vast,
white blanket. In the distance, a
lone red deer can be heard, howling
at the night sky, which is swathed
in the blurry, opal green Northern
Lights. A constant, vicious gale is
scratching in desperation at your
face, as you taste its bitterness,
on your lips…
The North Pole: silvery and glacial,
majestic and haunting… the kind of
place that lives long in the memory.
The snow - powdery and everywhere-
has been criss-crossed by sleigh
trails like deep slashes in a vast,
white blanket. In the distance, a
lone red deer can be heard, howling
at the night sky, which is swathed
in the blurry, opal green Northern
Lights. A constant, vicious gale is
scratching in desperation at your
face, as you taste its bitterness,
on your lips…
double adjective opener
simile
expanded noun phrase
five senses: taste
five senses: sound
dashes for parenthesis
present perfect tense fronted
adverbial
subordinate clause
personification
Insert a pair of dashes in the correct place, in the sentence below.
Throughout the busy winter, the hungry grey wolf together with the rest
of its alert pack scoured the vast glacial wastelands for food.
The North Pole: silvery and glacial,
majestic and haunting… the kind of
place that lives long in the memory.
The snow - powdery and everywhere-
has been criss-crossed by sleigh
trails like deep slashes in a vast,
white blanket. In the distance, a
lone red deer can be heard, howling
at the night sky, which is swathed
in the blurry, opal green Northern
Lights. A constant, vicious gale is
scratching in desperation at your
face, as you taste its bitterness,
on your lips…
double adjective opener
simile
expanded noun phrase
five senses: taste
five senses: sound
dashes for parenthesis
present perfect tense fronted
adverbial
subordinate clause
personification
Describe it, in exactly 10 words.
Slap bang in the middle of the North Pole, there
lies a huge, well-lit monstrosity of a building,
known as Santa’s Grotto. It’s here where many
elves work - from dawn to dusk - on the sewing
and sorting, hammering and haggling to get
children’s presents ready for Christmas. All
year round, the chubby-faced elves, who aren’t a
happy lot, toil in a grubby, deafening workshop.
Some wear ear plugs to drown out the noise;
others use sign language to communicate over the
cacophony of machines and drills. The more
orders that Santa gives them, the more the elves
become irate with their working conditions. Who
could blame them?
Slap bang in the middle of the North Pole, there lies a huge,
well-lit monstrosity of a building, known as Santa’s Grotto.
It’s here where many elves work - from dawn to dusk - on the
sewing and sorting, hammering and haggling to get children’s
presents ready for Christmas. All year round, the chubby-
faced elves, who aren’t a happy lot, toil in a grubby,
deafening workshop. Some wear ear plugs to drown out the
noise; others use sign language to communicate over the
cacophony of machines and drills. The more orders that Santa
gives them, the more the elves become irate with their
working conditions. Who could blame them?
Fronted adverbials Slap bang in the middle of the North PoleSubordinate clauses ,who aren’t a happy lot,Expanded noun phrases a huge, well-lit monstrosity of a buildingHyphenated words well-lit, chubby-facedRhetorical question Who could blame them?
Insert hyphens in the correct places, in the
sentence below.
The seventy year old elf climbed out of his bed,
trudged through the well lit hall and, after waving a
cheery hello to his half asleep workmates, started another
day working on the Christmas gift production line.
Slap bang in the middle of the North Pole, there lies a huge,
well-lit monstrosity of a building, known as Santa’s Grotto.
It’s here where many elves work - from dawn to dusk - on the
sewing and sorting, hammering and haggling to get children’s
presents ready for Christmas. All year round, the chubby-
faced elves, who aren’t a happy lot, toil in a grubby,
deafening workshop. Some wear ear plugs to drown out the
noise; others use sign language to communicate over the
cacophony of machines and drills. The more orders that Santa
gives them, the more the elves become irate with their
working conditions. Who could blame them?
Fronted adverbials Slap bang in the middle of the North PoleSubordinate clauses ,who aren’t a happy lot,Expanded noun phrases a huge, well-lit monstrosity of a buildingHyphenated words well-lit, chubby-facedRhetorical question Who could blame them?
