Quotes with Christopher Flashcards

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(Conolizin in Reverse)
Oonoo see de tunabout?
Jamaica live fe box bread
Out a English people mout’.

A

Poking fun at the belief of the English people that the Jamacans would steal food and Jobs from the English, shes self ware, being ironic

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(Vergismenight)
that day, he hit my tank with one
like the entry of a demon.

A

Simile convey’s the enemy as a demon

dehumanising the other team

shows the harsh and diabolic voilence of War

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(Vergismenight)
The frowning barrel of his gun

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Personification
The frowning gun symbolises how the object is used to assert pain and domminance, confirmed through the frowning emotion of the barrel

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(Vergismenight)
And death who had the soldier singled

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Enemy is represented as death, personified as having singled him

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(for the people)
Songs to stir like a battle-cry

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Holding strength during segregation and emotion (relating to the slaves)

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