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Descriptive Writing Setting

This document provides details about settings in descriptive writing, including a desert setting and how people feel in the desert. It then provides questions and answers about two passages. The first passage describes the extreme heat of a day in Jamaica, and how it affected both humans and animals. The second passage describes an unwelcoming and hostile house and surroundings in the Kalahari Desert, emphasizing the point that the lady detective is visiting the house of a murderer.

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Descriptive Writing Setting

This document provides details about settings in descriptive writing, including a desert setting and how people feel in the desert. It then provides questions and answers about two passages. The first passage describes the extreme heat of a day in Jamaica, and how it affected both humans and animals. The second passage describes an unwelcoming and hostile house and surroundings in the Kalahari Desert, emphasizing the point that the lady detective is visiting the house of a murderer.

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Descriptive Writing Setting-Character

Description

Setting Details to Describe/Atmosphere

Hot and Dry desert,


Golden yellow sand
1. Desert Cacti
Camels, rattle snakes
Survive on the water from plants

2. How do people feel in a People get tired and exhausted,


Desert Thirsty

Spring runs out of water


3. Dry place
Crops die

High Wind in Jamaica


Answer the following Question
Extract 1:
Q.1 From Extract 1, choose three details that convey the
extreme heat of the day. Give reasons for your choice.
Ans. The tree details that convey the extreme heat is:
1. Fair-sized spring had bubbled up it conveys that the
spring evaporated
2. The group of children were hot, far too hot to speak
to one another it conveys that there throat was very
dry
3. They sat on their ponies as loosely as possible it
conveys that the climate is hot that’s why they were
sitting loosely.
Q.2 How did the heat affect the children?
Ans. The heat made it very hot for the children to speak one
another, their feet were stinging when they could not bear
the heat of the soil.
Q.3 Explain, using your own words, how the animal life
responded to the heat.
Ans. Bullock shifted feat only when they could bear the heat
anymore. The insects were too lethargic to pipe and the
basking lizards hid themselves and panted. No would willingly
move their tail. The ponies advanced only because they had
to.
Q.4 Later in the day, a hurricane hits the area. How do the
descriptions in the passage suggest that something serious is
about to happen?
Ans. In the passage it says, close over the ground a dirty grey
haze hovered.
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
Answer the following questions
Extract 2:
Q.1 From Extract 2, choose three words or phrases that
suggest that the house and its surroundings were
unwelcoming and hostile. Give reasons for your choice
Ans.1 Three words or phrases that suggest the house and its
surroundings were unwelcoming and hostile are:
1. Tucked away behind the trees is unwelcoming because
it feels isolated and creepy.
2. The shadow of the hill is unwelcoming because it blocks
the sunlight coming from the sun and makes the
atmosphere creep.
3. The years had scaled them off and only their ghosts
remained is unwelcoming because it has been peel off
and only the outline is left. He has used the word Ghost
to make the spooky effect.
Q.2 Explain the effects of the sun on the woman in the
passage.
Ans.2 The light coming from the sun prickled at her skin that
means that she is not used to that intense heat.
Q.3 What was it that she did not like about this part of the
Kalahari Desert?
Ans. The thing she did not like about the part of the Kalahari
Desert is the sun and she grew up in a land where water was
easily available but in the Kalahari Desert you cannot find
water easily

Q.4 We learn in the book that the lady detective is visiting


the house of a murderer. How does the description of the
house and its surroundings emphasise this point?
Ans.4 The description of the house emphasise this point
because the atmosphere of the surroundings and the house
is creepy and isolated and the thief wants to hide himself
making the atmosphere creepy.

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