Between a rock and a hard place - anthology section A
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- Created on: 09-11-18 15:25
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- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- TITLE is an idiom: 2 options, neither that are great
- PRESENT TENSE: more immediate thought process + ability to follow thought process at time
- AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL: to recount, to inform (first person)
- BEGINNING
- TENSION: starts by describing expertly what thought would be normal climb
- PROFESSIONAL
- Use of professional terms: experienced, accidents can happen to all
- "chockstone"
- "stemming or chimneying"
- "traverse"
- "drop-off"
- SOMANTICFIELD OF CLIMBING + SPECIALIST LEXIS
- Use of professional terms: experienced, accidents can happen to all
- PROFESSIONAL
- Everything is described very closely
- "Claustrophobic feel of a short tunnel": foreshadows danger to come
- "lip of the drop off": conventional metaphor
- TENSION: starts by describing expertly what thought would be normal climb
- PROFESSIONAL
- Use of professional terms: experienced, accidents can happen to all
- "chockstone"
- "stemming or chimneying"
- "traverse"
- "drop-off"
- SOMANTICFIELD OF CLIMBING + SPECIALIST LEXIS
- Use of professional terms: experienced, accidents can happen to all
- PROFESSIONAL
- TENSION: starts by describing expertly what thought would be normal climb
- Description of accident
- "instinctively": not thinking, comes naturally
- "chockstone" "consumes to sky": dramatic
- "fear shoots my hands over my head": abstract noun is subject of sentence, controls body
- "the next three seconds play out at a tenth of their normal speed": time is subjective
- "my eyes register": emotional detachment
- "ensnares":metaphor
- "smashes","ricochets","crushes my right hand": onomatopoeia
- LAST SENTENCES: 2nd to last is long (describes different stags of rock hitting, implies sequence of continuous events), last sentenceis v short
- Suspense after accident
- Metaphors
- "flaring"
- "throws me into panic"
- Biological description
- "My nervous system's pain response overcomes the initial shock"
- "yank ": dynamic verb, onomatopoeia
- "Anxiety has my brain tweaking": abstract noun, creates sense of danger
- "My desperate brain conjures up": metaphor, magic, desperation
- Metaphors
- "flaring"
- "throws me into panic"
- Metaphors
- "adrenaline-stoked": compound adjective
- "But I'm stuck": 2nd short sentence to end paragraph in a row
- "while my body's chemicals are raging* at full flood": personification*, metaphor
- "heaving","pushing", "lifting":uses series of clauses starting with verb in present continuous aspect (-ing)
- List, separated by comas (asyndetic)
- Metaphors
- END
- "Come on...move!: talks to rock, shows desperation
- "Nothing.": ends in one word sentence, emphatic, despair
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