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02. Look in detail at this extract, from lines 1 to 12 of the source:
It was a Monday afternoon in November and already growing dark, not because of the lateness of the
hour- it was barely three o'clock - but because of the fog, the thickest of London pea-soupers, which had
hemmed us in on all sides since dawn - if, indeed, there had been a dawn, for the fog had scarcely
allowed any daylight to penetrate the foul gloom of the atmosphere.
Fog was outdoors, hanging over the river, creeping in and out of alleyways and passages, swirling thickly
between the bare trees of all the parks and gardens of the city, and indoors, too, seething through cracks
and crannies like sour breath, gaining a sly entrance at every opening of a door. It was a yellow fog, a
filthy, evil-smelling fog, a fog that choked and blinded, smeared and stained. Groping their way blindly
across roads, men and women took their lives in their hands, stumbling along the pavements, they
clutched at railings and at one another, for guidance.
How does the writer use language here to describe the fog?
You could include the writer's choice of:
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