Children's writing: Vesuvius - by Onvi

Wow! I love the idea of this picture being the setting for the destruction of Pompeii, Onvi. It's a brutal image and you have carefully created lots of word pictures to help us understand the terror that ensues.



Example:

• The protector now became the destroyer (metaphor).
• The sky darkened to slate grey with gaps of alabaster-white thunder (personification).
• The bitter sky screamed with thunder (personification / pathetic fallacy).

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