SHOOTING STARS
- Created by: chloe
- Created on: 26-04-13 19:39
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- Key Ideas - memory; remembering the dead; learning lessons of history; our capacity for cruelty; dignity in suffering; the importance of history
- FORM
- Dramatic Monologue
- Listener
- is us
- we are addressed directly
- chalenges us; implores us to 'remember' - emphasised by repetition
- Place
- details of the camp and what happened
- "by the graves"
- Voice
- Persona
- female jewish victim of the holocaust
- effective because it's a first hand account
- authentic
- more moving
- Persona
- Listener
- Dramatic Monologue
- TONE
- mournful; challenging; matter of fact; elegiac; sorrowful
- SENTENCE STRUCTURE
- stanza 3; lines 10-12
- haunting; stream of consciousness as it happens - puts us there - emphasises - matter of fact tone
- stanza 3; lines 10-12
- RHYME
- 'click' 'trick'
- internal rhyme
- emphasises cruelty
- internal rhyme
- 'click' 'trick'
- ONOMATOPOEIA
- 'trickled' 'click' 'trick'
- links her fear and humiliation to the callousness and cruelty
- 'trickled' 'click' 'trick'
- IMAGERY
- SIMILIE
- "upright as statues"
- METAPHOR
- SIMILIE
- REPETITION
- 'after'
- east to forget'
- 'remember'
- importance of remembering
- 'after'
- WORD CHOICE
- "salvage"
- "gossiping"
- STRUCTURE
- stanzas 1-3 / description or naration
- stanzas 4-6 / questions and reflection
- enjambment / not end-stopped
- eg list of names
- FORM
- "my bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear"
- METAPHOR
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