Chapter One: Question 3!!!

1.'Soups and stews simmered in huge cauldrons and terracotta bowls were filled with potatoes roasted in olive oil and sprinkled with sea salt and spike of rosemary.’This sentence uses sibilance to help us picture the soups and stews simmering and bubbling away and help us to imagine the atmosphere as well as the sounds that the roasts and pots are making.
This also uses imagery to also help us picture the bowls filled with nice fragrant potatoes.
2. 'Shining fish doused with oil and lemon, pink prawns and crabs and mounds of saffron rice and juicy wild mushrooms.’This sentence uses descriptive language to describe these foods and there appearances in great depth.
The sentence also may use tone to create a specific atmosphere of celebrating, joy and happiness.
3. 'It was like having custard in your veins instead of blood, getting exhausted just trying to sit up in bed.’This obviously is a big simile. Trying to make us imagine and help us imagine what is would feel like and how drowsy and weak you would be.
4. 'The sky was a dark navy blue and the stars were about to be rivalled in brightness.’This only really uses imagery and descriptive language. This makes us try to think briefly about what the rival of the stars may be and also helps us to picture the night sky prior to when it lights up with fireworks.
5. '...everyone outside was till gasping ‘Ooh!’ asthe fireworks were let off and ‘Aah!’ as the fizzled out. Santa Maddalena was still ablaze with candles but it was empty.’This uses contrast to make us remember that she is in the quiet church while everyone else is outside is marvelling the spectacular firework display in the sky. It also uses contrast as all the candles were ablaze so the place would have been warm and alight but there was no one there.
6. 'The penalty for breaking this rule and remaining in Bellezza on the Giornata Vieteta – the forbidden day – was death, but no one in living memory had taken the risk.’This uses emotive language to produce atone of seriousness about it as it is talking about death.
It is also slightly using a euphemism as it didn’t say that numerous people had died because of being there but that no one that they could remember.