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Night has…. the horizon…. The … with a …

Night has conquered the horizon slashing the skies with a blend of charcoal 

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Darkness .. like… until it … across the city… the light

Darkness crept in like a thief stealing the light until it hung as heavy as a blanket across the city suffocating the light

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only the… streetlight… . It was …

only the weak thin glow of the streetlights fought black the gloom. It was futile

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The night would …

The night would always be the winner

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The moon … through the … above in a …


The moon soaked through the clouds above in a luminous smear

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… of stars … and …, unaware of ….

smattering of stars wink and dance, unaware of what is to come

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Moonlight … through casting .. as the …

Moonlight streams through casting a ballet as the leaves dance

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The light … through the … splintering into a … of colour and heat

The light fractured through the stained glass splintering into a kaleidoscopic daggers of colour and heat

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A … of the … cascaded all around the …

A sweet scent of the moist morning dew cascaded all around the sublime forest 

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The smell of … flowers … the air

The small of fresh flowers permeates the air

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The …of rotting wood and… was enough to … into … : … and …

The putrid stench of rotting wood and carcasses was enough to cause my stomach to coil into a serpent: vicious and forceful

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An impenetrable blanket of odours cascaded across the sky obscuring the moon and stars leaving me stranded in a sisyphean darkness

An impenetrable blanket of odours cascaded across the sky obscuring the moon and stars leaving me stranded in a sisyphean darkness

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An… of … cascaded across the sky … the moon and stars leaving me stranded in a …

An impenetrable blanket of odours cascaded across the sky obscuring the moon and stars leaving me stranded in a sisyphean darkness

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The roofs were.. with a … as though the structure itself had been… in… and …

The roofs were encrusted with a grotesque palimpsest of rancid flesh as though the structure itself had been consecrated in decay and forgotten rites

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3 words to describe heat

Sweltering. Searing. Unbearable

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The Night air was …

The Night air was bitingly cold

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… which … even the most … clothing

chill wind which penetrated even the most durable clothing

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Smoke … and fog …

Smoke slithers and fog thickens

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Fog … to the earth like a …, … sound and … form.

Fog clung to the earth like a shroud, muffling sound and distorting form

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The trees …their …

The trees thrust their skeletal arms

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The trees Like … … me or… and … for …

The trees like soldiers encircle me or surrendering and imploring for sustenance

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The sun, a …

The sun, a wicked tyrant 

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There was an … silence … in the air

There was an eerie silence hanging in the air

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The kind of … that …, The.. from which …. Not a … was to be heard.

The kind of quiet that makes man uneasy, The kind from which no good can come. 

Not a sound was to be heard.

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The silence was …, but … - an … of …and …

The silence was not empty, but cacophonous - an orchestra of spectral echoes and unseen dread

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The clock ticked … and….

The clock ticked slowly and menacingly  

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The … hour approached

The witching hour approached

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… surged like …,  like … caught in a …

Grief surged like a tide dragging me under like a vessel caught in a merciless tempest

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Her words were …, each syllable a …

Her words were laced with venomous poise, each syllable a meticulously sharpened blade

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Grief … within him … into a … of sorrow

Grief ossified within him calcifying into a permanent architecture of sorrow

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Beneath his … seethed a … of …

Beneath his veneer of composure seethed a hurricane of unspoken desperation

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Her thoughts … in the expanse of …, decaying in …

Her thoughts festered in the expanse of his mind, decaying in stagnant introspection

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… washed through her and… her … immediately

exhilaration wasehd througher and thawed her chilled flesh immediately

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….fear intensely …

insurmountable fear intensely crushes down on me

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.. surfed through my …

panic surged through my veins

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… of dread … through me

talons of dread rake through me

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my heart was …

my heart was a rapid staccato

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my heart … in my …

my heart catapults in my chest

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my heart was a …, … into my ribcage

my heart was a pendelum, slamming into my ribcage

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a … of... And.. That … eachother

A maze of twisting and angular branches that swarmed eachother

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.O flickered.. Across the.. Their … into …

Shadows flickered across the abandoneddecayingwalls their shape morphing into menacing forms

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Mountains + fog

Mountains grapple to be seen intermingled with dense fog rarely showing their peaks

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Snow

Icy pellets batter me, an unwavering opponent

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Wind

Wind whistles whisper in worrying tales

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Gravestones

Stand like teeth threatening to

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Death

The realisation of my death floods me definitely foreboding

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Storm clouds

Roll over the mountains carrying the latest infantry of ice

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Hard snow

Pearl while bullets ricochet with numbing sharpness

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Heat

Pulses, angryclings to everybody, thing life

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Engine

Slow continuous drone of the dirty

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Billboards

Blinding neon lights pierce through my eyes

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Cars

Growled furiously

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Sunset x2

Transfixed by facade of hope taunting me. The sun retreats in a facade have of manipulative colour which conceal it's intentions

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Techniques in question 3

Sentence lengths ellipses openings rhetorical questions shifts in focus time (flashbacks) tenses perspectives tone dialogue cyclical in media’s resjuxtapostion narrative climax

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Effect sentence length and elipses

Increase or decrease pace

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Rhetorical questions

Questions and engages reader

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Shifts focus

Overwhelm or distract or emphasises its significance

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Flashback

Feel more connected and understand more (in their thoughts or memory )

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Shift in Tone

Dramatic and in congradt = reflect on why it changed

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Dialogue

Insight and focus on other characters

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Cyclical

Monotony or emphasises significance

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Media’s res

Engage

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Important in question four

Effect on reader 3 WWHW different parts of the statement or ways to agree