Touching the Void
- Created by: raabiasakeena
- Created on: 29-11-15 14:15
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- Touching the Void
- Active verbs (dramatic+intense)
- 'I hit' "catapulted'
- Slow verbs
- Active verbs (dramatic+intense)
- 'I hit' "catapulted'
- 'Trudged'
- Active verbs (dramatic+intense)
- 1st person narrative. Makes reflection intense and personal
- Involves both of them
- Short sentences
- Rapid pace that reflects speed of the accident
- Repetition to reflect and ellipses
- 'my leg... my leg'
- Use of ellipses to show broken thought. Illustrating his gradual realisation
- '...if its broken... if...'
- Gives clear description/overview of scene. Establishes where+how happened
- Cold language- lacks emotion
- 'he looked pathetic'
- 'You're dead'
- Rational+realistic. Lacks drama and emotion in Joe's. Reflected in concise sentences
- 'I had no doubt about that'
- Broken thought (ellipses)
- Highly emotive language. Powerful, to understand pain
- "Grotesque distortion"
- "bones splitting"
- Figurative language to explain the pain
- "fierce burning"
- Uses the power of three in order to show the pain.
- "It was ruptured, twisted crushed,"
- Short sentences in end reflect understanding
- Both accounts end with short sentences in acknowledgement of reality
- "I could get down...It didn't frighten me"
- Both accounts end with short sentences in acknowledgement of reality
- Active verbs (dramatic+intense)
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