English - Reading to write - Bradbury techniques

Question 1

Bradbury - quote 1

tidal waves,

Answer 1

metaphor

Question 2

Bradbury - quote 2

she was different and they knew her difference and kept away.

Answer 2

repetition

Question 3

Bradbury - quote 3

the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth

Answer 3

colour imagery

Question 4

Bradbury - quote 4

the tatting drum,

Answer 4

onomatopoeia

Question 5

Bradbury - quote 5

An old photograph dusted from an album

Answer 5

metaphor

Question 6

Bradbury - quote 6

Margot stood alone.

Answer 6

repetition

Question 7

Bradbury - quote 7

The children pressed to each other like so many roses, … intermixed, peering out for a look at the sun.

Answer 7

contrasting simile

Question 8

Bradbury - quote 8

children

they

Answer 8

repeated reference

third person inclusive

Question 9

Bradbury - quote 9

It’s like a fire,’ she said. ‘In a stove.

Answer 9

simile

Question 10

Bradbury - quote 10

They hated her pale snow face, her waiting silence, her thinness, and her possible future.

Answer 10

accumulation

Question 11

Bradbury - quote 11

Speak when you’re spoken to.

Answer 11

Speak when you’re spoken to.

Question 12

Bradbury - quote 12

protesting, and then pleading,

Answer 12

alliterative

Question 13

Bradbury - quote 13

They stood as if someone had driven them, like so many stakes, into the floor

Answer 13

contrasting simile