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How does Dickens present London in this extract? - Coggle Diagram
How does Dickens present London in this extract?
Structure
Semi colons
The semicolons are used to join different clauses together, with a shorter pause than a full stop, but a longer one than a comma
Commas
Dickens has used lots of commas in this extract, usually to give more information to the reader. Not essential information but sentence fillers.
3 sentences
In the whole of the extract there are only 3 sentences. It makes the paragraph flow more easily, rather than stopping and starting new sentences the whole time and having to link them on to the previous sentence.
Language
Adjectives
"smooth white sheet of snow"
comparitive too
"deep furrows by the heavy wheels of carts and wagons."
'furrows' show how deep and bold the lines were, cutting into the ground, creating a bare gash in the snow
"intricate channels"
"thick yellow mud and icy water"
Personification
"all the chimneys in Great Britain had..caught fire, and were blazing away to their dear hearts' content."
"the shortest streets were choked up with a dingy mist,"
Superlatives
"The house fronts looked black enough, and the windows blacker,"
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"hundreds of times"
"half thawed, half frozen"
Descriptive
"branched off"