Bleak House
Evaluation of my piece which is a detailed narrative in the style of Charles Dickens; Bleak House, although I am going to pretend I am not the author.
The author starts by immediately creating a punch and making a point due to the opening, “Edinburgh” this is a bold opening which informs the reader clearly of the setting and the overall clear mood to the piece. I think the author starts with this short sentence because short sentences are gripping and they captivate the reader’s attention quickly and with ease.
Personification is a technique used avidly by the author. Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object. “Unsympathetic December weather” this is personifying the weather and making it seem as if the weather has feelings and emotions and is in control of its own actions.
Furthermore, the author also uses a lot of diverse similes, “as much bitter snow in the streets, as if” and “drunken revellers stirring like they.” A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through connective words such as; "like", "as", "than", or a verb such as "resembles". The similes in this piece are very effective as they act as a comparison between things which are generally not alike. The similes in this piece also help to explain ideas to the reader and they work to make the narrative more vivid and entertaining.
In this piece, the author also uses lots of detailed and exciting adjectives, such as; coarse, inklike, elongated, drenched, mummified and warily. These adjectives add imagery to the narrative and stimulate the reader.
This narrative is constantly broken up with the use of commas. The use of commas drags out the process making the text influent, and makes us as the reader hang on to every word intensively. “Beams of light, pulsating down from the overly gleeful Christmas lights, making a mockery of the harsh and unforgiving night, which was as joyful
The author starts by immediately creating a punch and making a point due to the opening, “Edinburgh” this is a bold opening which informs the reader clearly of the setting and the overall clear mood to the piece. I think the author starts with this short sentence because short sentences are gripping and they captivate the reader’s attention quickly and with ease.
Personification is a technique used avidly by the author. Personification is a figure of speech in which human characteristics are attributed to an abstract quality, animal, or inanimate object. “Unsympathetic December weather” this is personifying the weather and making it seem as if the weather has feelings and emotions and is in control of its own actions.
Furthermore, the author also uses a lot of diverse similes, “as much bitter snow in the streets, as if” and “drunken revellers stirring like they.” A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things through connective words such as; "like", "as", "than", or a verb such as "resembles". The similes in this piece are very effective as they act as a comparison between things which are generally not alike. The similes in this piece also help to explain ideas to the reader and they work to make the narrative more vivid and entertaining.
In this piece, the author also uses lots of detailed and exciting adjectives, such as; coarse, inklike, elongated, drenched, mummified and warily. These adjectives add imagery to the narrative and stimulate the reader.
This narrative is constantly broken up with the use of commas. The use of commas drags out the process making the text influent, and makes us as the reader hang on to every word intensively. “Beams of light, pulsating down from the overly gleeful Christmas lights, making a mockery of the harsh and unforgiving night, which was as joyful