Explorers or boys messing about?
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- Created on: 18-03-18 10:04
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- Explorers or boys messing about?
- LANGUAGE
- "Their last expedition ended in farce"
- immediately the two men are introduced as a comical mess and we think of them as ridiculous characters
- "Yesterday a new adventure.."
- use of word "adventure" describes the men as childish and makes fun of them- hints of sarcasm
- "...tragedy when their helicopter plunged..."
- -use powerful language,"tragedy" and plunged express drama and emphasise how badly it could have ended
- "The men were plucked"
- use of the verb "plucked" makes the men sound small and less heroic - mocking them
- "Royal Navy, the RAF and British coastguards"
- list of important authorities to imply that the men are not as important and had to be saved
- "Experts questioned the wisdom.."
- use of the word "experts" makes the men look stupid - implying that they are amateurs
- hint of sarcasm in the use of the word "wisdom" implying that the men have none
- "'trusty helicopter'"
- use of quotation marks is very sarcastic
- implies that the writer believes that it was definitely not a very reliable helicopter
- "boys messing about with a helicopter"
- use of the word "boys" shows them to be very immature
- the phrase "messing about" implies that they were just playing and had no idea what they were doing
- "Mr Brooks, 42 and 40 year old Mr Smith"
- up until now it seemed as if they were only 18 from the way they had been described
- makes them look even more ridiculous, for the reader to find out their real age now
- "bottoms kicked and be sent home"
- ends the article describing the two men as naughty children
- making fun of them
- "Their last expedition ended in farce"
- LANGUAGE
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