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Description
Mind Map by Zoe Rossall, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Zoe Rossall
almost 7 years ago
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CHAINSAW VERSUS
THE PAMPAS GRASS
- LANGUAGE
- violent verbs
- 'lashing', 'tangle', 'flare'
- aggressive nature
of chainsaw/
mankind
- 'lashing', 'tangle', 'flare'
- personification
- 'knocked back
a quarter-pint
of engine oil'
- fits with stereotypes of gender
- fits with stereotypes of gender
- 'wearing a new crown'
- highlights victory of grass
- highlights victory of grass
- 'knocked back
a quarter-pint
of engine oil'
- delicate adjectives
- 'ludicrous feathers and plumes'
- mocking of females
- 'ludicrous feathers and plumes'
- asyndetic list
- 'cloth, or jewellery or hair'
- level of destruction
- 'cloth, or jewellery or hair'
- violent verbs
- KEY IDEAS
- power of man
- eventual dominance of female
- nature vs mankind
- power of man
- KEY THEMES
- victory/ defeat
- gender: masculinity vs
femininity
- victory/ defeat
- STRUCTURE
- enjambment
- 'engine oil/
and juices
ran'
- mirrors meaning of lines
- mirrors meaning of lines
- 'cushions and tufts/ and
it's twelve foot spears'
- display of size
- display of size
- 'engine oil/
and juices
ran'
- Collocation of imagery
- 'it's sweet tooth'
- 'for the flesh of face'
- 'for the flesh of face'
- shows unpredictability of chainsaw
- 'it's sweet tooth'
- repetition
- 'and felt the'
- highlights power of chainsaw
- highlights power of chainsaw
- 'and felt the'
- enjambment
- SOUNDS
- alliteration
- 'blur of the blade'
- plosive --> power
- plosive --> power
- 'sunning itself, stealing the show'
- sibilance
- sneaky
- sneaky
- sibilance
- 'blur of the blade'
- onomatopoeia
- 'choked'
- mirrors pain
- mirrors pain
- 'choked'
- alliteration
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