quotes and analysis

• 'too much talk for one planet'


  elliptical phrase
• 'emissions'


  introduction to metaphor

  semantic field of pollution
• 'vast cloud of blah'

  metaphor

  informal lexis

  colloquial
• 'eagle-eyed readers'


  metaphor

  zoomorphism

  adjective phrase
• 'roughly two people'


  colloquial humor
• '(not true)'

  repetition

  parenthesis

  humour
• 'intense flurry of activity'


  adjective phrase
• 'I'll explain in a moment'


  colloquial

  informal
• 'pompous'


  adjective

  self important
• 'navel gazing'


  idiom

  self-obsessed
• 'and another'


  repetition

  minor sentence

  humour
• 'anyway'


  conversational discourse marker
• 'events and noise'


  repetition

  meaningless

  minor sentence
• 'strike'


  lexical set of war
• 'factory' 'carbon dioxide' 


  imagery

  semantic field of pollution
• 'ridiculous'


  minor sentence
• 'miniscule fraction of readers who bother'


  mathematical lexis

  irrelevant
• 'selfishly uninterested'


  adjective phrase
• 'arsed'


  colloquial
• 'despite not being as funny as I never was in the first place'


  double negative
• 'wellwishers'


  sarcasm
• 'ugly bitch' 'go home bitch' 'slagged off'


  taboo language
• 'it's just weird'


  declarative
• 'but'


  fronted conjunction
• 'everyone'


  hyperbole
• 'now get out'


  imperative

  ends with declarative

  doesn't leave room for counter argument