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Ironic - they are waiting for darkness to see the light
Tension is created by use of verbs
Use of colours makes scene dreamlike and exotic
Grannie Patterson! Sounds like a made up name to me...
A SIMILE compares two things using "like" or "as"
Effect - makes the scene sound like a sketch or drawing
Personification - giving human characteristics to things that are not human
Simile - Sunset is like shutting a pair of "chiffon curtains"
Repetition - important poetic device
The poem offers us a rich experience of the senses
Onomatopoeia - when a word is spelt like it sounds e.g. "***!" or "Crash!"
Repetition - for a sensory overload
Personification of nature - suggests the enormous achievement of electricity