Woman In black

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Craig Waters                         English    Woman in black

In Susan Hill’s novel The Woman in Black, Hill uses many techniques to hold the interest of the reader. The Genre of the novel is a ghost story. The main character is a lawyer from London called Arthur Kips.

In the first paragraph Hill sets the scene by talking about the weather.

It is a terrible storm. The first technique that is used is onomatopoeia, and a personification, an example of this is on page 94 “Moaning” and “Whistling”. This makes us the reader feel that something is out there trying to get us. This makes us also feel like we are there and we can sense how scary it is.

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All the way through out the chapter Hill always comments about the weather, this makes the novel exciting as you can feel that something is going to happen.

 

In Hills novel the second technique that is used is simile an example of this is ‘the house felt like a ship at sea’. This makes us the reader imagines. This simile makes us the reader think that the house is rocking and shaking and being unstable like a ship at sea.  Another simile is ‘hearing the wind rage round like a lion. This makes the wind furious as ...

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