Extract from The Sea - Iris Murdoch In the first paragraph, Iris Murdoch introduces the theory of falling.

Using a conversational tone, she allows the reader to connect with her fear of falling, ... something which I had often imagined! on aeroplanes, of course the most terrible thing of all. The seriousness of the fears in falling, how long it was, how terrible, how hopeless...is accentuated through the use of repetition. Through the exploration of her horrifying experience, Murdoch uses the words, terrible and hopeless to convey her utter fear and to create a negative opinion of falling. Murdoch incorporates cumulation in her first paragraph, what the child fears, what the man dreads... its absolute subjection to alien causes, highlighting the feeling of rush and urgency when falling, in this long list of details. Murdoch explores the details in further depth, hands, feet, muscles, all the familiar protective mechanisms of the body ... raising the tension and pinpointing each part of the experience in the body, in this synecdoche. Murdochs every detail of her experience is explored in the second paragraph. By using alliterative phrases, creamy curling, Murdoch brings life to the waves, eliciting its movement and power. The waters level of importance is raised, the water whose intense cold surprised me, conveying the waters overwhelming unstoppable power as it combines with the alliterative phrases to illustrate its significance and foreboding nature. The final sentence, Then my head struck violently against the smooth rock and I lost consciousness, creates a feeling of the engulfing waves, through its onomatopoeic quality.

GREAT WORK ALICE. YOU HAVE THOROUGHLY ANSWERED THE QUESTION AND YOUR ANALYSIS OF TECHNIQUE IS STRONG. ID LIKE TO SEE YOU EXPLORE EACH TECHNIQUE IN MORE DETAIL THOUGH MAYBE YOU COULD AIM FOR TWO SENTENCES OF EXPLANATION PER TECHNIQUE.

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