Exam-style question: How does the writer use language in the extract below to describe the
boy? You could include the writer's choice of:
I words and phrases
O language features and techniques
I sentence forms. [8 marks]

'The boy grinned. He was normal-enough-
looking, Clary thought, for Pandemonium. He
had electric blue dyed hair that stuck up
around his head like the tendrils of a startled
octopus, but no elaborate facial tattoos or big
metal bars through his ears or lips. "I'm a
vampire slayer." He pushed down on the
wooden thing. It bent as easily as a blade of
grass bending sideways. "It's fake. Foam
rubber. See?"
Taken from 'City of Bones'