Descriptosaurus: Myths & Legends builds on the vocabulary and descriptive phrases introduced in the original bestselling Descriptosaurus and, within the context of myths and legends, develops the structure and use of the words and phrases to promote colourful cinematic writing. This essential guide will enable children to take their writing to the next level, combine their descriptions of setting and character and show how the two interact. Children can then experiment with heroes, gods and supernatural beings to create a legendary story.
This new system also provides a contextualised alternative to grammar textbooks and will assist children in acquiring, understanding and applying the grammar they will need to improve their writing, both creative and technical.
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Note: Apart from aiding the flow of your writing, this chapter can also be used to stimulate quick, brainstorming activities to get your creative juices flowing by asking the questions ā Why? How? When? Where? Who? What happened? It is amazing how many stories can be created as a result of these quick activities.
Openings
There was something strange about the hammer ā she could feel it ā sense something, a presence.
He would remember this moment later. He would remember the excitement about finding the spear. Then, everything was normal and he had been unaware of the approaching danger.
From that moment on, peace had been a brief, fragile thing doomed to shatter; the only question was when and where.
When he looked at the rippling reflection in the mirror, although he had no idea what it meant, he could sense that it was a warning. Warning him to get away while he still could.
He could sense the danger prickling down his spine. Every night since he had found the orb, he had dreamed of being pursued, chased by a menacing presence closing in around him, lurking in the background, but which he could never see. He didnāt know how to put his unease into words as he didnāt know what it was he feared.
She woke shivering with a sense of foreboding, a premonition of doom hanging over her, as if her dreams foreshadowed terrible events to come. Frantically, she checked her neck to make sure that the locket was still there.
Sometimes, she wished she could just forget what she knew. Forget the day she had first learned about her powers.
He lay awake night after night, heart filled with dread; he knew he had to make the most difficult decision of his life.
It was days later that he would remember that moment.
They were nervous days while she waited for him to return. She knew that she had taken a step towards something sinister and there was no going back. Not now.
As he saw the air shimmering around the stone, he knew that the time had come, and he was terrified of what lay ahead.
Nowhere was safe any more.
He was shaken to the core by what he had just witnessed.
How different things would have been if she had never found theā¦
He shouldnāt have followed them, or listened to their conversation. That was when everything started to go wrong. If he had known what would happen, he would have run the other way.
Warning of Danger to Come
He sensed that something was wrong here. Very wrong. Why had he come? Was it too late to turn back?
As she entered the forest, she looked up at the dark shadows between the trees and got the weirdest feeling; a feeling of unease and a sense of a threatening, malignant presence.
As soon as he had stepped into the city, an eerie sensation had enveloped him and would not go away. At night, in particular, he felt very uneasy. The feeling was getting stronger by the day. It was like the ruins were watching, waiting, biding their time.
As soon as he had entered the castle, heād been fighting an underlying sense of panic and as night approached and the shadows lengthened, the castle suddenly felt full of dark secrets.
He couldnāt shake off a sense of unease, a vague feeling that something was wrong, that he shouldnāt have come.
She was safe for now.
On the fourth day of his journey, events took a different turn.
A horrible suspicion started building inside her.
There was something she couldnāt quite put her finger on, something different, something not quite right.
A dreadful sense of misgiving began to creep over him, like the chill of a cold breeze.
He had all at once a dreadful, surging conviction of disaster hovering around the corner.
She felt that she was caught in a maze without end, and round every corner lurked hideous monsters waiting to pounce.
He had a sinking feeling in his stomach about what lay ahead. Something bad was about to happen and there was no way of escaping it.
He still couldnāt be sure that he was doing the right thing. There were too many things that could go horribly wrong.
It was only just the beginning of a new chapter of dangers. All day she had been haunted by the feeling that something was coming; something of which she should be very afraid; something that was hunting her down.
She tried to make sense of what she had heard. And as the truth dawned on her, she began to shake.
He began to feel cold. Icy dread prickled his n...
