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Keeping Quiet Notes
Keeping Quiet Notes
Keeping Quiet Notes
Poetic devices
1 Assonance: ( Use of vowel sound “O” and “e” ( Now we will count to
twelve , not move our arms so much)
2 Anaphora : Two consecutive lines starting with the word ‘Let’s
Let’s not speak in any language,
Let’s stop for one second,
3 Alliteration :
We will
We would
Sudden strangeness
His hurt hands
Wars with
Clean clothes
We were
So single minded
Repetition : use of ‘War’
Enjambment : ( a poetic term for the continuation of a sentence or phrase
from one line of poetry to the next.)
and for once could perhaps a huge silence………of threatening ourselves with
death.