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Text 32- More Pricks
than Kicks
- Contexts of production
- Purpose is to entertain, a
story of how a fictional irish
man, Belaqua, prepares his
food for a journey
- Short story
from a
collection in
1934
- Uses vocabulary from a
military background,
suggests how making
toast is like going into
battle
- Very specifi,
personal
methods,
suggest only he
knows what
wartime life is
like
- Purpose is to entertain, a
story of how a fictional irish
man, Belaqua, prepares his
food for a journey
- Form and Structure
- Long detailed sentences
throughout, tells us that the text is
aimed at a higher, more
educated audience
- Colloquial
language
reflecting a
conversational
tone
- From third person,
omnicient narrator, however
we can still feel a strong
sense of personal opnion
from the protagonist
- Rhetorical
questions used to
let the audience
question the
situation
- Four main paragraphs,
tells us of the novel genre
- Long detailed sentences
throughout, tells us that the text is
aimed at a higher, more
educated audience
- Word Choice and Sound
patterning
- Serio Comical lexis used to
increase the drama of the
situation, makes it a lot more
inviting to read and is ironically
written, as it is very simple to
make burnt toast
- Uses conventional words
from heroic poetry but
applies it to ordinary
situations such as words
like assasin and victory
- From the semantic field of
wartime creates and
emotive response from the
reader such as
'abominated' 'back to
prison' 'comrade' and
'barrel' creates dangerous
imagery. Also highilighted
by the figurative language
of 'rapture' and 'victory',
describes how desparate
his is for the food and how
precious it is to him
- Uses words
from the
semantic
field of
religion
- 'flabby slab plump
down on glowing
fabric' onomatopoeia
uses assonanse as
it repeats the vowel
sound
- Onomatopoeia also used as the author describes him eating
toast 'snap' 'gnash' these descriptive words make him seem
almost animalistic, which could suggest how people at wartime
destroy eachother much like animals do to fight to be alive
- Very sepcific lexis,
shows taht he thinks
everyone else is wrong
- Serio Comical lexis used to
increase the drama of the
situation, makes it a lot more
inviting to read and is ironically
written, as it is very simple to
make burnt toast
- Audience is
fans of Beckett's
work and
literary short
stories
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