200-300 word challenge. Use all grammar techniques shown recently such as clauses, adverbials, commas and semi-colons. And the varied language.
In the piano the focus is the old man and his life. Can you write from the perspective of the piano. Write about all the owners that have had you. They could just be the old man, his father and his father before him. But you are telling the story of the people and their lives. Each time they play you their thoughts travel through their fingers and into you. You have a lot to say. Read this extract from 'The Hobbit' by J.R.R. Tolkien (1937).
Answer the following questions and complete the tasks. 1. List the forms of grammar and punctuation that you can see he has used. 2. How does the author raise the reader's interest and curiosity in the passage? 3. How does the passage give us clues about who inhabits the dwelling? 4. Continue the passage in the style of the author for 100 words. In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort. It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats - the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill - The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it - and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another. No going upstairs for the hobbit: bedrooms, bathrooms, cellars, pantries (lots of these), wardrobes (he had whole rooms devoted to clothes), kitchens, dining-rooms, all were on the same floor, and indeed on the same passage. The best rooms were all on the left-hand side (going in), for these were the only ones to have windows, deep-set round windows looking over his garden and meadows beyond, sloping down to the river. Produce a 300 word passage of writing that includes the following:
2 embedded clauses 2 adverbials Semi colon used to replace a conjunction 6 ambitious words not used before Also use: 1 simile, 1 metaphors, 1 personification 300 word challenge...
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