Mystery in the Dark Seas

9. How does the description of the moon add to the atmosphere? How does the moonlight help the people in the boat? (Paragraph 4)?

10. Which two words in Paragraph 4 tell you that there is a safe place which can be reached through the gap in the rocks?

11. Select a simile from Paragraph 5 and explain how it adds to the description of the sea?

12. What does the verb 'to inch' in line 42 tell you about how the people were moving? Why were they moving in this way?

13. What do the ‘potholes, cracks, fissures’ (line 44) tell the people about the rock on which they are walking?

14. What does 'it' in the first sentence of Paragraph 6 refer to?

15. What did the people see when the mist suddenly parted? (P6)

16. What does the final sentence make you think and feel? (P6)