Storm on the Island

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GCSE English Mind Map on Storm on the Island, created by Liam Theobald on 30/04/2018.
Liam Theobald
Mind Map by Liam Theobald, updated more than 1 year ago
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Storm on the Island
  1. "this wizened earth has never troubled us"
    1. "wizened" means old and shrivelled
      1. indicates how weather has battered and beaten the earth over time
    2. weather symbolic of artilllery
      1. "pummels"
        1. "strafes"
          1. creates semantic field of destruction and torment
          2. "bombarded"
          3. "exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"
            1. oxymoron
              1. sea is vicious but controlled
                1. not threatening
              2. "spits like a tame cat - turned savage."
                1. simile
                  1. out of control, contradicts the oxymoron
                  2. enjambment expresses a sudden shock in behaviour of sea
                  3. "we sit tight while wind dives and strafes"
                    1. nature is superior to man, it must sit and watch helplessly
                      1. "a huge nothing"
                        1. Heany uses a paradox
                          1. nothing has no size
                      2. S and F sounds create hissing of wind
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