Across the Causeway – Chapter 5 Key words: Visual imagery Auditory imagery Simile Personification Across the Causeway – Chapter 5 Lesson Objective: To be able to explore the use of imagery used by the writer

The old Arthur’s house Do you remember what it was that attracted Arthur to his own house, the one that he describes in Chapter 1? Monk’s Piece stands at the summit of land that rises gently up for some four hundred feet.... across this fertile, and sheltered , part of the country. But at our backs.... Rough scrub and heathland, a patch of wildness... Set on a rise above a sweeping view down over the whole river valley...

Recap Arthur attended the funeral of Mrs Drablow He saw the Woman in Black Mr Jerome ‘stopped dead’ Arthur went to the hotel to have lunch He is now waiting for Keckwick to collect him to take him to Eel Marsh House

Read up to p.64 Look out for: Descriptions of the landscape Descriptions of the house Auditory imagery Visual imagery similes

Quote What is being described? Technique / type of imagery Effect it creates on the reader They lay silent, still and shining under the November sky... The marshes (p59) Auditory and visual imagery personification The landscape becomes a character We get a sense of what he can see and hear We seemed to be driving towards the very edge of the world. The marshes simile It’s highlighting the remoteness of the place A tall, gaunt house of grey stone The house Makes the link between the house and the Woman in Black It stood like some lighthouse or beacon Makes the reader think that there is danger ahead

Auditory and Visual imagery Pick out an example of auditory imagery (p59) Pick out an example of visual imagery (the bird) What is the significance of the lines ‘I wanted... Take it all in through every one of my senses, and by myself,’ and ‘I was aware of a heightening of every one of my senses.’ In what ways does the description of the house reflect the feelings felt by Arthur when he first saw Monk’s Piece?