From A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Flashcards
How is a comic tone created?
All of the English devices are designed to make a light-hearted humorous read
“Emma Levine travelled through Asia”
Travel writing
‘Wacky races’
This is an allusion to a cartoon and as it was from quite a long time ago the author is clearly assuming that the people reading her passage are adults.
The speech in the first part of the account is not paragraphed.
Fast paced, humorous conversation
“Two lads”
-slang
-cocky people
INFORMAL
“Fired up”
Metaphor
“We waited for eternity”
Metaphor and a hyperbole
“Feel rather silly”
INFORMAL
“Nearly one hour later’
Juxtaposes an eternity
“Wobbly bicycle”
Anti-climax, nothing happens!
Doesn’t have to be true but it makes the story more interesting.
“Coming, coming”
Repetition
“Lads” para 2
Provides cohesion
“Race had been cancelled, we spotted two approaching donkey-carts”
Climax
“Roaring up in their wake”
Metaphor and personification
“Perched” in para 2,4,5
Cohesion - not entirely stable
“Horns tooting, bells ringing and the special rattles”
Onomatopoeia and descriptions to create imagery (rule of 3)