"farmers found them" - Mametz Wood
Personification
Alliteration
Simile
Metaphor
"the wasted young" - Mametz Wood
Double meaning
Juxtaposition
Onomatopoeia
"tended the land back into itself" - Mametz Wood
Sibilance
Assonance
"A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder bone" and "broken bird's egg of a skull" - Mametz Wood
Metaphor & personification
Simile & onomatopoeia
Metaphor & alliteration
Simile & juxtaposition
"the earth stands sentinel" - Mametz Wood
Simile & personification
Simile & alliteration
"broken mosaic of bone" and "paused mid dance-macabre" - Mametz Wood
Hyperbole
"the golden mosque ... there was blood on the walls" - The Yellow Palm
"the barbarian sun" - The Yellow Palm
Lexical choice
Rhyme
"a slow and silver caravan / on its slow and silver mile" - The Yellow Palm
"sweeter than salaams" - The Yellow Palm
Anthropomorphism
"It is your last check-in point in this country" is NOT a declarative statement. (At the Border, 1979)
"The land continued under our feet, / divided by a thick iron chain." - At the Border, 1979
Chiastic structure
"My mother informed me: We are going home" - At the Border, 1979
Caesura
"She said the roads are much cleaner / the landscape is more beautiful / and people are much kinder." - At the Border, 1979
Power of 3
Imagery
"'I can inhale home,'" and "A man bent down and kissed his muddy homeland" - At the Border, 1979
"We waited while our papers were checked, / our faces thoroughly inspected." is a PASSIVE use of language. (At the Border, 1979)
"Left by the ebbing tide of battle" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Lexical Choice
"Seizing her" - 'Come On, Come Back'
"an icy-amorous embrace" - 'Come On, Come Back'
Oxymoron
"swiftly severing" - 'Come On, Come Back'
"Waiting, whiling away the hour / Whittling" - 'Come On, Come Back'
"shepherd's pipe" - 'Come On, Come Back'
"Sleeps on, stirs not" - 'Come On, Come Back'
'that brings a nation to its knees' - Flag
'that makes the guts of men grow bold' - Flag
'that will outlive the blood you bleed' - Flag
Second person
Alliteratioin
'What's that fluttering in a breeze?' (Flag) makes use of a verb in the PRESENT PARTICIPLE.
What is the purpose of the repetition of the indefinite article ('a') in 'Flag'?
Suggests that the flag could be anywhere showing that the power of patriotism is universal.
Helps to create an image of the flag in the reader's mind.
'Through a distant shot of a building burning' - Out of the Blue
Indefinite article
Do you think you are watching, watching / a man shaking crumbs / or pegging out washing?' - Out of the Blue
'The heat behind me is bullying, driving' - Out of the Blue
Repetition
'The depth is appalling. Appalling' - Out of the Blue
'wind-milling, wheeling, spiralling, falling' - Out of the Blue
Sentence structure
'Sirens below are wailing, firing' - Out of the Blue
