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The Yellow Palm
Cards in this deck (10)
- 1The Yellow Palm1998 Baghdad
- 2FocusTrees vital for shade and cooling the air as well as food. Affected by traffic and warfare. Religion.
- 3Form6 regular stanzas - stage of his journey through the city
- 4VoiceA visitor shocked by damage to place/people. Affects all his senses
- 5StructureFuneral - poison gas
Mosque - religion against religion
Ex-soldiers begging
Tigris River - barbarian sun, nature against nature
Weapons paid for/beggars
Dying palms feeding child - 6Sound Effects's' at the end of lines create a kind of rhyme effect to link key ideas with each other
- 7ImagesViolence - war language/religion/nature- creates contrast - nature/love against violence/death
- 8Repetition'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 - 9Punctuation-,;- create pauses for reader to ponder
'and' 'but' - more of the same + contrasts side by side.
Links and seperates ideas E.g. river/sun - 10Other FeaturesGives sights, sounds and smells to recreate journey in detail.
Personification of sun - nature is against them also
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- English Flashcards on The Yellow Palm, created by JosephBailey on 21/05/2013.
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