Paper 1 phrases

Light streaming through

Thick, languid ribbons danced through

Sun through the sky

A blade of sunlight cut through

Colours of the sky

The sky was a tapestry of x ink; the sun bled across the horizon, its dying light smearing the clouds in hues of resignation

Dawn

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze lifted as we watched the dawn remaking the world in its ancient pattern

Very rain

Rain lashed my face like icy needles

Very sad

I wore melancholy like an heirloom - heavy, inherited and stitched into every movement

Noises in a forest/ field

The forest murmured with the voices of the ancient and the unseen, each rustling leaf a syllable in a forgotten language

Time passing slowly

Time slowed, thick and gelatinous, dragging seconds into aching stretches of awareness

Very windy

The wind prowled through alleyways, a feral thing whispering secrets in a dialect only the shadows could decipher