Paper 1 Practice Exercises

The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning-half frost, half drizzle-and temporary brooks crossed our path, gurgling from the uplands
-Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

Discuss:

1. Bronte uses both visual and auditory imagery in this passage. Which words create visual images? Which words create auditory images? Which words create both?
   -Really all of the words create visual and auditory images. A gurgling brook conjures the image of a stream running down a hillside, but a brook is not the same as a gurgling book. The words all work together to be both auditory and visual.

2. What feelings are traditionally associated with rain, mist, and frost? How would the feeling of this passage be different if the rainy night had ushered in a brilliant, sunny morning.
   -spooky stuff, like Halloween. Also, a bit of the unknown feeling. Fog inhibits your vision, and creates a sense of mystery around the scene. If it were sunny in the beginning of the passage, the tone of the paragraph wouldn't have been the same.

2nd try
He slowly ventured into the pond. The bottom was deep, soft clay, he sank in, and the water clasped dead cold round his legs
-D. H. Lawrence,"The Horse Dealer's Daughter"

1. What effect does sentence length have on this passage?
   the first is short and just stating the words. the second is painting the picture.

2. Examine the second sentence. How does the structure of the sentence reinforce the meaning?
   The structure of the sentence is dependent clauses separated by commas, slowing down the pacing of the sentence. This creates the effect of reading it slower, and making it fit into the scene, where the man slowly sank into the pond. The sentence structure mirrors the actions of the sentence.

3rd try
She is a woman who misses moisture, who has always loved low green hedges and ferns.
-Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

1. Both of the subordinate clauses in this sentence modify woman. What effect does this parallel structure have on the sentence?
   It makes woman the focal point of the sentence. Like, puts her in the center of all the ideas introduced in the sentence.

2. How would it change the feeling evoked by the sentence if it read:
   She misses moisture and has always loved low green hedges and ferns.
   It puts the emphasis on she rather than woman, making it seem like she is less of a person. She becomes a pronoun who likes moisture and hedges and whatnot, not a woman who loves all these things.