About the Author!
Who's the author?
Gordon Edgar Downie
Allows the reader to picture scenes.
Imagery
This device uses vivid descriptions like “earth-like world” and “pitch-black and yellow eyes”
Imagery
During what period of his lifetime did he record the song?
During his battle with terminal brain cancer
The purposeful re-use of words and phrases to create emphasis or convey a particular effect.
Repetition
what literary device, is used in the phrase “This is the only place to be”
repetition
What's his music projet called?
Introduce Yerself
Giving human qualities or actions to non-human things or abstract ideas.
Personnification
The wolf and raven?
Symbolism
What band did he play for?
The tragically hip
When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line of poetry to the next without a pause or punctuation it is?
alliteration
“I’ll just close my eyes. I’ll just catch my breath / This is the only place to be”
Alliteration
What did downie often write about?
Memory, place and identity
The speaker seems to be describing their last moments, closing their eyes, taking their final breath.
Interpratation
“With a sun-like star / You can feel”
Personnification