A Minor role

Cards (4)

  • Themes
    Power
    Identity
    Personal purpose
    Appearance, vs reality
  • Techniques
    Use of alliteration throughout, cohesive imagery, foregrounds certain elements to give a sense of pride /particular importance
    Sibilance and guttural alliteration ‘shrinks to unwanted sniggers’, discomfort of scenario
    sense of endless energy ‘asking, checking, getting’
    Dark humour
    Hyperbole
  • Structure
    Cyclical through symbolism of the spear
    No strict formula
    , dictated by internal feelings of the PV Use of tricolons
  • Tone
    Considerate
    Explanatory
    Considerate