What do you find interesting about the way A.S Byatt describes the scene in the church yard? You should consider characterization, language and anything else you find interesting.

... What do you find interesting about the way A.S Byatt describes the scene in the church yard? You should consider characterization, language and anything else you find interesting. I found this passage very interesting to read, as it included so much sub-text. Byatt uses many literary techniques, such as personification, and metaphors, similes and onomatopoeias throughout this passage. They help create a distinct and vivid atmosphere, and entices the reader- reading this passage really made me want to read the book-the imagery used made me fell like I was in the middle of the graveyard watching these two men work. The two characters are very individual, it is obvious Cropper is in charge, he- as the expression goes is 'wearing the trousers'. Many things suggest this hierarchy to the reader, "Hilderbrand grunted", here we imagine Hilderbrand as a pig, an animal considered quite negative- repulsive to some. By portraying Hilderbrand as

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