Today we begun looking at descriptive language within Writer’s Craft. We read some excellent examples of how writers can describe the weather using adjectives, similes, metaphors and personification.

HOMEWORK TASK: For TOMORROW, Wednesday 22nd August
– Choose a piece of weather that interests YOU.
–  Find 5 words/phrases to describe your piece of weather. TRY AND BE IMAGINATIVE. These can be adjectives, similes, metaphors or examples of personification.
Write this in your homework diary/ a piece of paper!

Here are the examples we read today:

‘It was a cold grey day in late November. The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o’clock in the afternoon the pallor of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.’

‘The sunset filled the entire sky with the deep colour of rubies, setting the clouds ablaze.’

‘I wield the flail of the lashing hail
And whiten the green plains under,
And then again I dissolve it in rain,
And laugh as I pass in thunder.’

Mr.Cook, Mrs.MacLeod and Mrs.Prentice