eng lang paper 1 q5 Flashcards
line for when he is about to kill himself
I stopped counting the days a while ago. Down here, time doesn’t tick — it drips, slow and pointless. I used to listen for footsteps, voices, something. Now, the silence is all I have, and I’ve made peace with it. The last candle flickers beside me, shadows dancing on rusted metal. When the flame goes out, I won’t light another. Let the darkness stay.
negative vocab
delipidated - crumbling infrastructure, decay
engulfed
dim-lit
memories became more and more fragmented-warped-hazy
for silence - suffocating, heavy
Delirium - disturbed state of mind
dormant
supernatural vocab and sentences
Its skin was mottled with blotches of grey and yellow, like bruised fruit left to rot.
Its form was eldritch — wrong in every possible way, as if it had been imagined by something that had never seen a human before.
powerful negative sentences
silence wrapped around me like a second skin
“Even my breathing felt too loud in the weight of that stillness.”
“My memories became more and more warped, as if time itself was bending around the bunker.”
“Buildings stood like broken teeth, jagged against a sky the colour of dried blood.”
“The world outside folded into fire. Inside, I only had silence — and myself.”
“It felt like shutting a coffin lid, not a door. And I’d just buried the world.”
Delirium crept in slowly, like a fever I couldn’t sweat out.
“Maybe this is what happiness is: not escape, but remembering what’s worth surviving for.”
“A sepulchral silence pressed against the walls — not just quiet, but funereal.”
positive vocab
positive phrases
“The hatch groaned open. I braced for ash and silence… but instead: sunlight. Dandelions, blooming through the cracks. A sky. And air that didn’t taste like fear.”
Like an endless sky of possibility
Bathed in golden light
going crazy
The walls are closer than they were yesterday. I know they are.
The quiet grew louder, more oppressive, until every breath felt like a struggle.”
“The silence was no longer peaceful — it was suffocating, smothering me in its emptiness, and I found myself questioning whether the world had ever existed at all.”
line for when he is saved
“The door creaked open with a sound I had almost forgotten — like the first breath after drowning. And there, standing in the light, was something I thought I’d never see again — a way out.”
what to do if it is on a positive theme
talk about maybe:
- opens the hatch and finds life
- is about to kill himself (use that powerful phrase) but he hears a voice on the radio
- finds a companion
shutting the door
“It felt like shutting a coffin lid, not a door. And I’d just buried the world.”
