Rebecca - language features

Rebecca - language features

1. alliteration

   • twisting and turning
   • secretive and silent

2. simile

   • it lay like a jewel in the hollow of a hand
   • cloud- like a dark hand before a face

3. metaphor

   • the drive was a ribbon now
   • the sea was a sheet of silver

4. personification

   • Manderley- is like a character in the story
     • 'secretive and silent as it had always been'

5. word choice

   • sepulchre
     • old fashioned and a bit scary for a house
   • malevolent ivy
     • scary and evil sounding