creative writing

Question 1

cyclical structure method

Answer 1

• it began - as all endings do - with silence
• … silence

Question 2

punctuation!!!

Answer 2

;
:
…
?
-

Question 3

black

Answer 3

obsidian

Question 4

waving / rippling / bending

Answer 4

undulating

Question 5

golden

Answer 5

Midas-kissed

Question 6

colourful / mixture of colours

Answer 6

kaleidoscopic

Question 7

shining

Answer 7

scintillating

Question 8

potion

Answer 8

elixir

Question 9

negative symphony / choir

Answer 9

cacophony

Question 10

broken

Answer 10

fragmented

Question 11

hesitation

Answer 11

trepidation

Question 12

bounced off / around

Answer 12

ricocheted

Question 13

every part of…

Answer 13

each pixel of…

Question 14

language devices to include

Answer 14

• personification / zoomorphism
• metaphor / simile
• rhetorical questions
• oxymoron
• alliteration

Question 15

oxymoron example

Answer 15

delicate brutality

Question 16

a space that is jutting out into enemy territory

Answer 16

salient

Question 17

blue

Answer 17

cerulean

Question 18

clean/clear/vast and smooth

Answer 18

unblemished

Question 19

vivid, lifelike, sensory

Answer 19

almost tactile

Question 20

silence is bad

Answer 20

not of peace, but of poised peril

Question 21

a quiet acknowledgement of…

Answer 21

a whispered testament to…

Question 22

unsettlingly quiet / still

Answer 22

stillness stalked the air/room/sky/land

Question 23

rigid, not exquisite yet imposing

Answer 23

austere

Question 24

ubiquity of the emotion/conflict/idea or weather

Answer 24

the gauze of unsettled rain/sunshine/ fear / hate / conflict

Question 25

intangible, persistent war

Answer 25

lingering war of shadows

Question 26

being going on for a long time

Answer 26

a rhythm as old/ancient as breath/contextual reference

Question 27

effect of ongoing conflict

Answer 27

choked by unresolved grudges

Question 28

rhetorical question example

Answer 28

is it possible to win a battle against oneself?

Question 29

wound imagery

Answer 29

seeping... slowly, deliberately

Question 30

moving along into enemy territory

Answer 30

advancing in a quiet invasion as they formed a treacherous salient