Language
What type of language device is this quote?
In monstrous shadows LIKE drunken giants
Simile dummy
What is contrast?
When opposites are placed across a text to highlight difference or change.
"I ______-________ across meadows"
shilly-shallied
What technique can you see?
"I shilly-shallied across meadows"
Sibilance
What is juxtaposition?
When opposites are placed close to each other in a text to highlight differences.
"Insects, weightless as ________ settled upon my skin to drink"
sunbeams
What device can you see?
Children come and fins me if YOU wish - I am YOUR inheritance.
Direct address
What is the device?
flowed vs trickled
Contrast
find me if you wish
The damselflies were my ballerinas.
What is this language device
What does it suggest?
Metaphor.
Beauty, entertainment, grace
what is the device?
hamlets become villages, villages become towns, towns become cities
listing
Clogged with _______ and ____
garbage and junk
Toll my ending
What is 'ending' a metaphor for?
What might the noise 'toll' link to?
death
funeral bells
Brick my greedy brick
What is the device?
What does it emphasise?
repetition
unstoppable growth
Am reduced to a _______ of _____ beneath the still _______ stars
trickle of filth beneath the still burning stars