WRITTEN WORKS

Read the vignette taken from the novel of Nora Roberts, the Whiskey Beach. Take a look and understand the Sensory Imagery, Figure of Speech, and type of diction used and underlined in the vignette. Supply the correct answer for Column A and write these on Column B. Write your answer on your answer sheet.

He didn't see the gun. As with the footsteps, the fog muffled the shots so they sounded low, thick, odd. They puzzled him in that instant of shocking pain. He never reached for his own gun; it never occurred to him. He fell, eyes wide, mouth working. But the words were only gurgles. He heard, as if from great distance, his killer's voice. I'm sorry. It wasn't supposed to be like this." He didn't feel his hands searching, taking his phone, his recorder, his keys, his weapon. But he felt cold - biting numbing cold. An unspeakable pain through it as his body was dragged to the edge over rocky ground. For an instant he thought he was flying, wind rushing cool over his face. Then the thundering water swallowed him as he hit the rocks below.

Column A
(Sensory Imagery, Figures of Speech, and Diction)

Example: A sentence which appeals to the sense of hearing

1. A phrase which hyperboles pain.

2. A quoted sentence showing an informal diction.

3. A phrase which personifies cold

4. A phrase which personifies water

5. A sentence which appeals to the sense of sight.

6. A phrase which appeals to the sense of hearing.

Column B
(Phrases or sentences used in the sentence

Example: the fog muffled the shots so they sounded low, thick, odd.​