Question

compare the two paragraphs and say what details help to make the second paragraph more colourful.

Paragraph 1. the river house was old. After the fire nobody lived there. It looked sad and lonely.
Paragraph 2. The Tiver House was as old as any of the other buildengs in West Street. But after the fire it looked sadder than the rest of them. All the people had moved out. The broken widows stared like blind eyes. The smell of smoke still hung about the empty rooms/

Answer 1

Comparisons, epithets and metaphors make it more colourful.

Answer 2

linking words, degree of comparison,epithet