Woman in Black Question What features of language does hill use when describing the "London Fog" and how effective is it

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Darren Rowbotham

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What features of language does hill use when describing the “London Fog” and how effective is it in creating the atmosphere that she wants.

The passage that refers to the “London fog can be found in the beginning of chapter 2 “A London Particular”. This is the start of Kipp’s story about the women in black, in which he describes the fog.

Prior to chapter 2 is chapter 1, in chapter 1 you are introduced to most of the characters in the book E.G. Kipps, Esme. Chapter 1 sets the scene for the rest of the book, chapter 1 is written in present day and chapter 2 is written in past tense. In chapter 2 kipps describes the effect the weather has on him “my spirits for many years now been excessively affected by the ways of the weather, and I confess that”

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Susan hill uses more than 500 words to describe the fog, but at the time she doesn’t seem to be going anywhere with it but as you read on in the story you realise that all the describing in the earlier chapters is building the basis for the story to unfold, The mist is paramount to the plot, by the time we get to the end of the book, when Arthur hears the noises that he has associated with the sinking of the pony and the trap into the marsh, we know that the mist made it so that ...

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