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“Pitted with scars” technique?
Word choice
Analysis of “pitted with scars”
Close walls of the tenement
“Bruised a fine Protestant blue” technique?
Visual imagery, word choice
“Bruised with a fine Protestant blue” analysis?
Suggests the conflict divide between the Catholics and the Protestants. The blue symbolic suit as it shows other people they are protestant. status
“Flat faced shops looked at them blankly” technique?
Transfer epithet
“Flat faced shops looked back at them blankly” analysis?
Denotations imply the lowest floor could be shops, its been boarded up, ran-down, worse. Suggests the poverty of the setting and is nostalgic to the husband but not the woman.
“Walk like a victorious gladiator” technique?
Simile
“Walk like a victorious gladiator“ analysis
Suggests the power the man thinks he is have as he is successful in contrary to his past self as he was poor. This shows change. And the violence of brutally attacking a catholic and his wife
“ I was treated like a black” technique
Simile, symbolism, wc and tone
“I was treated like a black” analysis
Suggests the class divide and that its an insult to be black. Links back to apartheid Africa.
“the Scottish words unbidden rose to his mouth like bile” technique?
Simile, word choice
Symbolism of status quotes
Black polished car
Square ring
Goblet of whiskey
Fur coat
Bulging wallet
Cigar
First class hotel
Blue suit
“Gazing round him and up at the sky with a hungry look as if he were scanning the veldt “ technique?
Simile, visual imagery, word choice
“Gazing round him and looking up at the sky with a hungry look as if he were scanning the veldt “ analysis
Afrikaan word of “veldt”- grassy plain suggests the connection to South Africa. “Hungry” suggests predatory behaviour.
