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How does Stevenson use language to evoke a powerful setting in this extract?
Stevenson uses similes to evoke a powerful setting in this extract
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This has the effect of making the street sound very inviting and implies
that the locals are good at their trade
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Stevenson also uses the noun “coquetry” to hint at a flirtatiousness in
the sellers, provoking the image of a bustling, attractive market in the reader
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It could also suggest that the “thriving trade” of the market was spreading
rapidly through London, much like a forest fire
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Stevenson also
describes how it “shone out in contrast to its dingy neighbourhood”
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Stevenson also uses imperative verbs to evoke a powerful setting
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The verb “thrust”
suggests that it was forced and didn’t belong in the street, whilst the consonant
phrase “block of building” makes the building sound completely emotionless - like it’s
unloved and neglected
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“Sinister” implies that
the house was hiding something and that its appearance was forbidding - this
contrasts the inviting image of the neighbourhood which was largely shaped by the
market
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The reader could infer from this that the inhabitant of the house doesn’t
want to be disturbed or perhaps is concealing something (which might make it seem
rather “sinister”)
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