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Mind Map by Grace Fawcitt, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Grace Fawcitt
almost 7 years ago
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9.2- Anthology Text- Collins speech
- Audience
- Royal Irish Regiment
- Military press personnel
- The public
- Royal Irish Regiment
- Purpose
- To stir soldiers before battle
- To command morality and respect
- To stir soldiers before battle
- Mode
- Transcript of spoken crafted speech
- Transcript of spoken crafted speech
- Tone
- Inspiring
- Motivational
- Commanding
- Serious
- Respectful
- Emphatic
- Inspiring
- Annotations
- 'light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.'
- Alliterated metaphor
- Allusion to 'let there be light'
- Biblical reference appeals to Irish origin
- Biblical reference appeals to Irish origin
- Passive voice
- Importance of soldiers
- Importance of soldiers
- Alliterated metaphor
- 'There may be people
among us who will not
see the end of this
campaign. We will put
them in their sleeping
bags and send them
back.'
- First person plural
pronoun suggests
unity
- Sleeping bags= euphemism
for death- boosts morale
- Suggests familiarity and comfort
- Suggests familiarity and comfort
- 'May'- modal verb, not certain
- 'Campaign'- noun instead of 'war'- diverts
attention from reality and brutality
- First person plural
pronoun suggests
unity
- 'rock their world'
- Unexpected humour, modern phrase
- Imperative
- Ameliorates battle
- Refer to post-war reaction
- Unexpected humour, modern phrase
- 'light of liberation in their lives was brought by you.'
- Context
- Bush and Blair claimed
Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction
- Deception
- Deception
- 9/11 in 2001 (2 years earlier)
- Ireland is very Christian
- After war, soldiers said the
speech just made them homesick
- Bush and Blair claimed
Saddam Hussein had
weapons of mass destruction
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