Dystopia Exercises

Fronted Prepositions
1) At the bridge’s entrance stand two guards wearing stitched faces.
2) Beyond the bridge, a large gate separates the two worlds
3) Above the castle walled factory, soars the Fat Podgy Pig.
4) Within the factory, the workers making the bacon scream

Noun Phrases
2) Beyond the bridge, a large gate between the hopeful and hopeless separates the two worlds.

Simple Sentence
Rubbish populated the street.
The emptiness gave an echo.
The skyscrapers stood crippled.
A street light flickered in the distance.
The boy walked alone.
A one-wheeled suitcase followed the boy.
The stench of corpses lifted out of him.
Blood and sweat stuck to his watery skin.

Relative Clauses
A street light flickered in the distance which gave the emptiness gave an echo.

The boy walked alone while a one-wheeled suitcase followed the boy.

Example with Relative Clauses
Pop pop pop. The sound of water slumping onto an iron pipe which steadily echos through the madness of disarrangement that unrolls above, in the brown vicious fog. The stench of decaying corpses hugs the streets which is another sign of the world that is lost. Rows of sewers line the base of the central fortress which once used to be the world cathedral. The suffocating sun and the rotting rising sea has left the environment nailed to a cross.

The fortress which once was the Southward Cathedral is now the stronghold of London.
into a still water echo through the sewer

Now that Smoke rose from the smouldering remains now that only the concrete crumbled ruins stood.
The decayed bedrock chilled the air after the Thames ran dry.
Light struggled to shine on such day since all hope was lost

Writing a Dystopia
1) Gramma effects (see above)
2) Be decisive on a viewpoint (first person, third person etc)
3) Use known language effects (Pathetic fallacy, Neologism, Sematic field,
4) Character use
5) Symbolism
6) Technology

Technology
Application of society
Totalitarian
Future
Decay
Rebellion

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