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Description
Flashcards by JosephBailey, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by JosephBailey
almost 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The Yellow Palm | 1998 Baghdad |
| Focus | Trees vital for shade and cooling the air as well as food. Affected by traffic and warfare. Religion. |
| Form | 6 regular stanzas - stage of his journey through the city |
| Voice | A visitor shocked by damage to place/people. Affects all his senses |
| Structure | Funeral - poison gas Mosque - religion against religion Ex-soldiers begging Tigris River - barbarian sun, nature against nature Weapons paid for/beggars Dying palms feeding child |
| Sound Effects | 's' at the end of lines create a kind of rhyme effect to link key ideas with each other |
| Images | Violence - war language/religion/nature- creates contrast - nature/love against violence/death |
| Repetition | 'As I made my way...' gives list effect = many effects of the war. Also long journey through a lot of devastation. 'slow and silver' = so big |
| Punctuation | -,;- create pauses for reader to ponder 'and' 'but' - more of the same + contrasts side by side. Links and seperates ideas E.g. river/sun |
| Other Features | Gives sights, sounds and smells to recreate journey in detail. Personification of sun - nature is against them also |
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