Quotes

• Sig Cigs - Lev experienced a lot of hardships in the past

  • Contrast: "the fields of sunflowers scorched by the dry wind"
  • Syndetic listing: "leather jacket and jeans and a leather cap"
  • "fifty hours or more"
• Sig Cigs - Immigrants experience a lot of discrimination

  • Alliteration: "break his back working"
  • Simplistic, basic, monosyllabic phrase: "I am legal"
  • Metaphor: "demonstrate that he didn't need to belong, that his heart remained in his own country"
• Sig Cigs - Lev --> vulnerable and isolated

  • "clutched an old red handkerchief and a dented pack of Russian cigarettes"
  • Repetition: "same"
  • Metaphor: "I am lost."
• Sig Cigs - Lev + Lydia diff reasons for moving

  • "separate aches and dreams"
  • syndetic listing v repetition of "same"
  • "they ran out of trees"
• Sig Cigs - Lev + Lydia relationship

  • Simile: "like a married couple"
  • "each alone and beginning a new life"
• Sig Cigs - Lydia --> encouraging + assertive

  • Assertive tone: "I'm sorry, but there is no smoking allowed on this bus"
  • Imperative: "Go on"
• Out Out - Hardships of a rural life

  • "His sister stood beside them in her apron"
  • "big boy doing a man's work"
  • Non specific noun: "sister!"
  • Foreshadowing: "Supper."
• Out Out - Boy --> naive, innocent, vulnerable

  • Repetition: "boy"
  • "He must have given the hand"
  • Monosyllabic: "Then the boy saw all"
• Out Out - Saw --> violent, predatorial force

  • Metaphor, sibilance, syndetic pair, repetition: "saw snarled and rattled, snarled and rattled"
  • Personification, active verb: "leaped out at the boy's hand"
• Out Out - Fragility of Life

  • Exclamatory sentence: "Little-less-nothing!"
  • Title: "Out, Out -"
  • One stanza, free verse
• Whistle - wind --> malevolent, predatorial force

  • Violent verbs: "battered", "rattling", "roaring", "moaning", "whistling"
  • Personification: "the wind rage round like a lion"
• Whistle - Setting

  • Simile: "the house felt like a ship at sea"
  • Simile: "steady as a lighthouse"
  • Declarative Sentence: "there was no living occupant of Eel Marsh House"
  • Syndetic Pair: "alone and exposed"
• Whistle - Childhood memories contrast weather

  • Nostalgic tone: "until I felt I was a small boy again"
  • Sibilance: "snug safety"
• Whistle - Writer creates suspense + mystery

  • Pathetic Fallacy: "stronger gusts"
  • Non-specific noun: "someone"
  • Ellipses: "for ... how many years"
  • Varying sentence lengths
  • Repetition of the abstract noun "cry"
• Whistle - presence of supernatural

  • Simile: "like a banshee"
  • Questioning: "but what was real?"
  • Short sentences: "no light came on"
• Whistle - nostalgic tone --> he is vulnerable + isolated

  • Nostalgic tone: "until I felt I was a small boy again"
  • Comparative Sentence: "I was as near to weeping tears of despair and fear, frustration and tension, as I had ever been since my childhood"
• Disabled - Soldier in a passive state

  • Passive tone, pronoun: "he sat in a wheeled chair"
  • Passive tone, metaphor: "waiting for dark"
  • Questioning: "Why don't they come and put him to bed?"
  • Cyclical Structure
• Disabled - Physical impact of war

  • "Now, he is old"
  • Alliteration: "ghastly suit of grey"
  • "leap of purple spurted from his thigh"
• Disabled - Regret/Reckless

  • Dash, Short Sentence, Caesura: "- He wonders why."
  • Metaphor: "threw away his knees"
  • "Voices of boys ... voices of play"
• Disabled - Treatment by Others

  • "inquired about his soul"
  • "smiling they wrote his lie"
  • "he was drafted out with drums and cheers"
• Unknown Girl - Structure

  • Free Verse
  • Enjambment
  • One long stanza
• Unknown Girl - Henna as a symbol of India

  • Metaphor: "a peacock spreads its lines across my palm"
  • End-stopped sentence: "I have new brown veins."
  • "firm peacock lines"
• Unknown Girl - Beauty of Eastern Culture

  • Colour Imagery: "studded with neon"
  • Colour Imagery: "her satin-peach knee"
  • "my shadow-stitched kameez"
  • "very deftly"
• Unknown Girl - Eastern v Western Culture

  • Colour Imagery: "studded with neon"
  • "Western perms" vs "bazaar"
  • "hennaing" vs "icing my hand"
• TBLOS - humanity's ability to see beauty despite suffering

  • Light and Dark Imagery: "dark boy shape leads dark girl shape away"
  • Light and Dark Imagery: "black shapes impossible to mark as Muslim, Serb or Croat"
  • "The young go walking at stroller's pace"
  • Light and Dark Imagery: "splintered Pleiades"
• TBLOS - Love

  • Romantic Imagery: "share one coffee in a candlelit cafe"
  • Metaphor: "match-flare test"
  • Light and Dark Imagery: "no torches guide them"
• TBLOS - War influenced every part of their lives

  • "often dodging snipers"
  • Militaristic Lexis: "mark", "tender radar", "tone", "signals", "match-flare"
  • "AID flour sacks refilled with sand"
  • Oxymoron: "precious meagre grams"
• TBLOS - horror of war

  • Sibilance, juxtaposition: "streets Serb shells destroyed"
  • Graphic Imagery, Rhyme, Juxtaposition: "blood-dunked crusts of shredded bread lay on the pavement with the broken dead"
  • "often dodging snipers"
• TBLOS - passivity

  • Regular rhyming pattern: "pass"/"gas", "prams"/"grams"
  • Repetition of the present participle "queuing"
  • Anaphora "of"
  • Enjambment
• Night - Effects of illness on narrator

  • "adventure", "so little did I think of it"
  • One sentence paragraph: "I was not myself"
  • Non-specific nouns, passive voice: "something was taking hold of me"
• Night - effects of illness on the family

  • Parentheses: "I think he sold a woodlot that he had kept when he disposed of his father's farm [that he had an] unmentionable nostalgia" for
  • "shakiness"
  • One sentence paragraph: "don't worry ... it's all over now"
• Night - dealing with MH (past v present)

  • "don't worry ... it's all over now"
  • "people have those kinds of thoughts sometimes"
  • "(I think that is what I might have done for a child, a generation and an income further on)"
• Night - the growth

  • Non-specific nouns: "thing", "it"
  • anadiplosis: "a growth. a growth"
  • "the size of a turkey's egg"
  • "cancer"
• Night - Isolation

  • "invalid status ... like a visitor"
  • "we weren't accustomed to giving such greetings"
  • "my impulse was to say no"
• Night - Family + Narrator complex relationship

  • Juxtaposition: "I could strangle my little sister, who ... I loved more than anybody in the world"
  • "I did not speak of my night difficulties"
• Night - Poverty

  • "gas rationing"
  • "small room" "thin mattress"
  • Parentheses: "I think he sold a woodlot that he had kept when he disposed of his father's farm [that he had an] unmentionable nostalgia" for
• Still I Rise - Oppression

  • Anaphora: "You may"
  • Violent verbs: "shoot", "cut", "kill"
  • Passive verbs, Contrast: "broken", "bowed", "lowered", "falling", "weakened"
• Still I Rise - Mistreatment in the Past

  • "bitter, twisted lies", "dirt"
  • "Out of the huts of history's shame"
  • "Up from a past that's rooted in pain"
• Still I Rise - Power

  • Dynamic Verbs, Contrast: "Pumping", "springing", "diggin'"
  • Natural Imagery: "Just like moons and suns, with the certainty of tides"
  • Natural Imagery: "a black ocean, leaping and wide, welling and swelling"
• Still I rise - confidence

  • Rhetorical Question, Direct Address: "Does my sassiness upset you?"
  • Wealth Imagery, Metaphor: "I dance like I've got diamonds at the meeting of my thighs"
  • "'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines diggin' in my own backyard"