Creative writing ideas ("Magpie"d) from CODE NAME VERITY)

Words and phrases that stand out to me...

• bed of mire and nettles
• factory chimneys were scrawling the blue north sky with black smoke
• disolved in a fit of gleeful laughter
• whey-faced
• teeming sky
• hurling themselves towards flame and death
• eyebrows disappeared into his hairline
• he let out a chortle of delight
• playing God
• holding his eyes
• green like Chartreuse liqueur
• salmony-mauve (pale-pink-orange-purple olour)
• bubbling over with giddy laughter
• responded garble of excited Glaswegian syllables
• they installed me here

Linguistic Devices...

• (adverb) nobody noticed
• (oxymoron) a fit of delighted panic
  
• (oxymoron) shamefully relieved 
• (oxymoron) cosy in hell
• (oxymoron)  chorus of agony
• (personification) jumping flames
• (personification) trembling darkness
• (personification) warmth woke her
• (personification) growing amazement
• (personification) cheerful coal fire
• (personification) devoured by her enormous overcoat
• (personification) battered grey land met tumultuous (deafening) grey cloud
• (metaphor) a vision of feminine perfection and heroism 
• (metaphor) washed back these unlikely confessions (with more tea)
• (metaphor) giddy, tickled laugh
• (hyberbole) he's a troll
• (hyberbole) a fit of pure insanity

Structural Features...

• RAF Maidsend was defenceless.
• The air-raid siren went.
• Maddie wasn't listening. She was reckoning.
• ... obviously cut from the same well-read, well-bred, lunatic cloth.
• Pretend I...

Ambitious Vocab...

• unploughed (cut grass)
• hapless (unfortunate)
• gormless (lacking sense or initiative; foolish)
• hobnail (a short heavy-headed nail used to reinforce the soles of boots)
• fuselage (the main body of an aircraft)
• throttle (power…