Lit Devices 1
Point of View "Why Soldiers Don't Talk" is primarily in
What is the 2nd person?
The Point of View in "Ambush"
What is the first person?
used to erase trace of the gunner's death
What is a hose?
DAILY DOUBLE
“Young man coming out of the fog, shoulders slightly stooped, his head cocked to the side” -O'Brien
(Give Two Devices)
What is Imagery and Repetition?
“Your skin feels thick and insensitive”
“A hard painful knot is in your stomach where the food is undigested”
"Eardrums are tortured by blast and the eyes ache from the constant hammering"
-Steinbeck
What is Imagery?
"I want to tell her exactly what happened, or what I remember happening"- O'Brien
Connection to Steinbeck
What is uncertainty of what actually happened?
"and when you wake up and think back to the things that happened they are already becoming dreamlike"
"under the blast your eyeballs are so beaten that the earth seems to shudder" - Steinbeck
(focus on italicized part)
What is personification?
“The ductless glands pour their fluids into the system to make it able to stand up to the great demand on it”
"Fatigue Toxins poison the system"
“Hunger followed by wolfed food distorts the metabolic pattern already distorted by the adrenaline and fatigue”
(Hint- describe the Diction)
What is Scientific/Anatomical diction?
what the main character "fell into" in "Death of the Ball Turret Gunner"
What is "the State"?
"Woke to black flak"
"Wet fur froze"
-Jarrell
What is imagery?
“I did not ponder issues of morality or politics or military duty”
Hint: This is OUTSIDE of the main character (environment)
What is external conflict?
Word Steinbeck repeatedly uses to describe Soldiers after they have seen battle
What is reticent?
“Kind man capable of great cruelty”
“Timid man of great bravery”
-Steinbeck
What is Antithesis?
Accept "juxtaposition"
Prompt on "Contrast"
“Even now I have not finished sorting it out. Sometimes I forgive myself, other times I don't"
- O'Brien
hint: this is WITHIN the character's mind
What is internal conflict?
“He was part of the morning fog, or my own imagination, but there was also the reality of what was happening in my stomach”
The connection to Steinbeck
What is seeing visions and tightness in stomach?