How is the story told in the first 80 lines of 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rosetti
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- Created on: 09-04-13 20:11
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- Write about the ways Rossetti tells the story in the first 80 lines of 'Goblin Market'
- Narrative Perspectives or Voices
- Third person omniscient narrator
- Sing-song tone of the beginning...
- Repetition
- Line 4: 'Come buy, come buy:'
- Lines 10-14
- Repetition
- Darker tones towards the end of the excerpt...
- The Goblins are portrayed as animals.
- Lines 71-76
- The Goblins are portrayed as animals.
- Sing-song tone of the beginning...
- Third person omniscient narrator
- Setting
- Unspecified setting; natural and rural setting
- Line 33: 'Among the brookside rushes,'
- Unspecified setting; natural and rural setting
- Stanza Formation
- Long narrative verse paragraphs...
- Lines 1-31: First verse, etc.
- Use of rhyming couplets
- Strict at first and then flexible towards the end.
- Lines 38-39
- Strict at first and then flexible towards the end.
- Long narrative verse paragraphs...
- Chronological Order
- 1. Begins with finding out what the Goblins do 'Morning and evening'
- 2. We then learn that about Laura and Lizzie's different roles and of Laura's temptation.
- Lines 34-35: 'Laura bowed her head to hear, Lizzie veiled her blushes:'
- 3. 1 and 2 create anticipation for the rest of the poem.
- Writing techniques
- Childlike rhymes and listings
- Lines 1-31: Lists of fruit
- Use of contrasts
- Lizzie and Laura's attitudes towards the Goblins.
- Use of specific names
- References to evil and religion
- References to Eve's temptation: Eve wanted to know more
- Line 53: 'And whispered like the restless brook:'
- The simile refers to Laura as having a dangerous curiosity towards the two evil Goblins.
- Line 53: 'And whispered like the restless brook:'
- References to Eve's temptation: Eve wanted to know more
- Childlike rhymes and listings
- Narrative Perspectives or Voices
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