Paragraph 01 - Source A uses language to portray sweets as part of an intense summer experience for the children, through strong vivid colour-based imagery like, ‘brittle orange’ and ‘weird, blue packet’. This creates a vivid image in the reader’s mind, emphasising the multi sensorial elements of eating sweets., Paragraph 02 - Similarly, Source B also utilises a similar kind of colour imagery, first to suggest value when describing the ‘ruby-coloured’ and ‘brilliant’ sweets. By likening them to a jewel, the author emphasises how precious the people in the extract consider them. However, the author of Source B expands on this colour theory by suggesting, ‘the brighter the hue, the more deadly the sweet’., Paragraph 03 - This results in a comparison to the now safer, ‘vegetable colours’ used in sweets. A contrast between ‘brilliant’ and ‘vegetable’ still equates danger with vivid colour in this source. This sets up a tone of excitement surrounding the sweets in Source A and a fearful attitude towards them in Source B In Source B, the author uses a scientific tone to portray immoral working practices in the past to provide the reader with a sobering view of the manufacturing process., Paragraph 04 - A hyperbolic adjective is used when describing the ‘villainous manner’ in which they are made. However, this is the only display of emotion in an otherwise matter of fact description, suggesting to the reader this process was the norm at the time despite being inhumane. The factory is given an eerie quality by the alliteration used to describe the girls working there as ‘sitting silently’ while ‘under the strict scrutiny of their supervisor’., Paragraph 05 - The repeated ‘s’ sound almost mimics a whisper within the text, creating a sombre tone around the sweets and their background. The lack of movement is highlighted by the alliteration too, adding to the monotonous day of work through the sounds of the words. In contrast, Source A creates an excited tone and centres on the consumer’s experience of the sweets., Paragraph 06 - A feeling of dynamic movement and volume is created through verb use, ‘raced up and down’, as well as hyperbolic language to describe the noise as ‘uproar’. Through these language techniques, a building sense of excitement is created for the reader. This, combined with the vivid colour imagery presents a much more positive portrayal of sweets than Source B’s more rational one.,

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