1. 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

2. 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...

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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?