Form and structure for Birdsong 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureThe BirdsongA2/A-levelAQA Created by: Elicia17Created on: 31-07-18 09:58 Modern day setting Characters are terminally dull and muted Gripping and interesting No pretended to hope, heroics glamour Break up momentum of war passages Dual sense of history and continuation 1 of 3 Pre-war love story Metaphor, adjectives and parentheic digressions Reader knows what will happen Dramatic irony Section serves to humanize the characters Driven by sex Visual and physical description 2 of 3 Conflict War scenes without a plot True ambivalence unbiased nature of war Concrete nouns and active verbs Mid war trench life Blood, iron, mud and agony 3 of 3
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