has run away from home because she feels like she doesn't fit in.
by Martine Murray.
The moon was lying pale and quivery in the sky, like a bony fingermark on a black cloth. The houses
were hushed and still and I was telling myself there was no reason to feel sad, not even for the wings, or
the way the moon was fading, getting thin like tissue. There wasn't even one piece of brightness to ache
over. The fields were like crinkled-up grey blankets huddled over a sleeping earth. Harry Jacob's house
looked grim, all bitten by the blackness. During the day it was the colour of a mint chew, and perched
awkwardly on its bald grass slope as if it hadn't quite settled. Now it had sunk smugly into the night's
shadows and it peered down at me as if it knew what I was doing, standing there alone in the darknes
In the midst of the bleating crickets and cracking thin limbs of the trees, I could almost hear the hous
letting out a muffled sneery snort, like my mother used to when I said what I thought of one thing or
another. Well, don't pretend, I felt like saying to Harry Jacob's green house, don't pretend that you bel
now. Just because the night has made you the same colour as all the other houses, don't pretend to b
serious, because as soon as the light comes up you'll still be an old green house that doesn't look right
a) i) Draw lines to show which technique each phrase is an example of.
The fields were like crinkled-up grey blankets.
the bleating crickets and cracking thin limbs of the trees
the house letting out a muffled sneery snort
personification
simile
onomatopoeia
ii) What is the effect of each of the techniques in part i)?
Personificatio
b) The author uses two similes to describe the moon.
Underline the similes, then explain why you think the author chose them.
"Like a bong fing.ermark on a black cloth.....
I think the the author used "bony fingermark an
black cloth" to describe the paleness of the mos.
How does the author make, Harry Jacob's house seem alive? Explain your answer