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es, flooded low-lying coastal areas and shut down all but emergency government services.”
And yet, the writer continued, “there was a rare beauty in the day: trees laden with snow like studies in black and white, drifts swirling-into Art Deco shapes, ice crystals frosted on a pane like tiny ferns.”
What makes that passage so satisfying? It tells the story simply. The writer employed strong verbs and kept them as parallel as railway tracks. His sentences were long, but they possessed a perfect clarity. His comparison of ice crystals to tiny ferfts gave us a vivid simile. Good stuff.
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