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Desert words and devices
Learn desert words, alliteration and metaphor.
Desert words:
- hamlets: small settlements;
- dunes: hills of sand;
- defying: boldly resisting (no one was out defying the blazing sun: nobody braved it);
- slumped: sank or drooped heavily (the camels slumped in the shade of the khejri trees);
- devoid of: without.
More:
- arid: very dry, with little yield;
- desolate: empty and bleak;
- remote: far away.
Phrases:
- a road that crumbles into sand disappears into the desert;
- a new lease of life: a fresh chance to live well;
- bearing words across this desolate geography: carrying letters through empty land.
Devices:
- alliteration: 'scorching summer winds and swirling sandstorms';
- metaphor (no like or as): sand-covered Khetaram becomes 'a walking sandman'; the storms are 'the desert's furies'.
Precise words and vivid devices bring the desert alive.
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