To choose a language feature that is used to describe the genie.
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It was a genie. No doubt about it. He was no taller than her pencil and mist still curled around him; but he looked like every genie she had ever seen in books: a little fat belly, with a silk bodice and billowing pantaloons that looked for all the world as if they had been woven from silver shifting mists. Tiny stars winked all over them and they were held up by a belt of pure gold. On his feet were the tiniest curly slippers, with pointed ends.
Anne Fine: adapted from A Sudden Puff of Glittering Smoke (Mammoth, 1991)
The writer builds a picture of the genie using...
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metaphors
onomatopoeia
adjectives
adverbs
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- Read the question. Read it again. What is it asking?
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- Remind yourself of what a metaphor is.
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A metaphor is when one object is described as another. There aren't any so I can eliminate this choice.
- Can you eliminate any other choices?
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Onomatopoeia isn't used in the text.
- The next choice is adjectives. Can you find any? Why are they there?
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There are lots of adjectives such as fat belly, silk bodice, billowing pantaloons. They add further description to the nouns to give me an image of the genie in my mind. There aren't any adverbs in the text so I will eliminate the final choice.
- Tick box three and check your answer.
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adjectives