English - Reading to write - Holt techniques Flashcards
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Holt - technique 1:
violins
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metaphor
2
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Holt - technique 2:
They reminded him of the sea, surging backwards and forwards…
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onomatopoeic effect of alliteration and assonance
3
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Holt - technique 3:
It was rich red brown in colour…
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colour imagery
4
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Holt - technique 4:
Is it broken?… What has happened to it?
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impersonal and commanding tone
5
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Holt - technique 5:
It looked heavy
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metaphor
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Holt - technique 6:
You must score lots of runs with it
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imperative language
7
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Holt - technique 7:
Like a wayward cannonball
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simile
8
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Holt - technique 8:
the strange discordant humming of telephone wires in a storm
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dissonance
9
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Holt - technique 9:
…he prepared himself for a lifetime of playing a straight bat on a pitch as empty and dull as an endless desert
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concluding simile and metaphor
