To My Nine-Year Old Self
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- To My Nine-Year Old Self
- Structure
- Strong structure shows how adult life is regimented & scheduled as
- Opposed to the life of a child who is free to do whatever they want
- Strong structure shows how adult life is regimented & scheduled as
- Dialogue between Dunmore & childhood self. Her younger self doesn’t speak - her physical appearance makes the most vivid impression on the reader.
- Language techniques
- Verbs – “run/leap/lunge” are dynamic
- Imagery
- “Slowly peeling a ripe scab from your knee”
- Savouring moments of her youth
- Adverb suggests being careful yet this is a macabre image
- Macabre: quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere
- Emphasise the details & symbols of death
- In French: la dance macabre represents the allegorical representation of the ever-present & universal power of death
- Known in English as the Dance of Death and in German as Totentanz.
- In French: la dance macabre represents the allegorical representation of the ever-present & universal power of death
- Emphasise the details & symbols of death
- Macabre: quality of having a grim or ghastly atmosphere
- Sensory detail
- Displays vitality and spontaneity
- Active verbs
- Demonstrate her confidence & energy contrast to Dunmore’s adult self & physical frailties she is now subject to
- “Bad back or a bruised foot”
- Demonstrate her confidence & energy contrast to Dunmore’s adult self & physical frailties she is now subject to
- “Sherbet lemons, ice-lolly, den”
- Lexical filed of childhood
- “Slowly peeling a ripe scab from your knee”
- Tone
- Exophoric tone
- Reference to something extralinguistic
- Used to make reference to something in the context of the speaker.
- Reference to something extralinguistic
- Exophoric tone
- Structure
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