** - effective persona
- Created by: viiwpp
- Created on: 30-03-22 14:19
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- shooting stars [effective persona]
- “After I no longer speak”
- immediate connection with the persona
- physically or metaphorical
- terrified to speak / dead
- “I heard a click. Not yet. A trick”
- psychical torture - pretending to shoot her
- use of rhyme - mimic sound of a cocking gun
- use of i - emphasising that a real person is experiencing this
- to salvage my wedding ring
- salvage - word choice suggests that she is rubbish and the only valuable thing about her is the monetary value of the things that she possesses.
- my - make more personal relationship and sympathy for persona
- wedding ring - something that should hold happy memories that she should keep for life is getting taken off her
- “Loosened/ his belt”
- enjambment
- forces reader to pause and reflect on dehumanising act of torture
- Reading slows, delays horror of the situation and mimics the personas anxiousness and fear.
- “Turn thee/ unto me with mercy, for I am desolate and lost”.
- turn the - a command, asks how you would prepare to die.
- unto me - persona, dramatic monologue first person
- mercy - word choice - shows desperation despite doing nothing wrong/not committing any offence. religious concept
- for i am - shows persona - makes monologue more personal
- desolate - shows that the persona is unhappy and numb, telling us explicitly how she feels.
- and lost - unless we remember what she has gone through and her story, she will be forgotten.
- “After I no longer speak”
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