Lang. devices - highlight shared/competing perspective

Lang. devices - highlight shared/competing perspective

1. 1. Reynolds - establishes pers. from norm

   • 1. proper noun - 'Blackarmband History'
     • infers that pers. is 'other'; unique
   • 2. Implicit irony (paradox) within truncated sentence -"bigotry is in retreat'
     • evokes a stance from resp. - either for or against statement
       • Highlighting both improvement and need for improvement
   • 3. Pinnacle of R's rep - particular use of passive voice - 'the towns had an air'
     • encourages resp. to feel impelled to join R on journey to become didactically educated on Frontier Contact

2. 2. Conversely, S highlights pinnacle of pol. pers. thru characterisation of Lear - rep's political makeup of Eliz. England - mocked thru his absurd and irrational actions on behalf of hubris

   • 1. L's character juxtaposed to Fool to provide dichotomy of political stances, similar to that of S's opposed to the prevailing societal values
   • 2. Inferred S had lack of faith in his political system within stichomythia - 'Nothing... nothing comes of nothing'
     • Positions reader to see no hope for represented society - furthering extent of S's competing perspective.

3. The composer's sophisticated use of devices provokes evaluation of the presented situation on behalf of the responder in regards to what the 'accepted' view of a situation is and how the composer's perspective either aligns or varies from this.