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A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat (Language (Tri-colon ("Quick…
A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat
Language
Colloquials
"lads" + "punters"
Informal
Hyperbole
"suddenly fired up"
Accentuates excitement
"waiting for an eternity" + "rush hour gone anarchic"
Allow reader to further empathise with Levine
Tri-colon
"Quick reflexes...nerves of steel...effective horn"
Action
"Voices raised, fists were out and tempers rising"
Illuminates tension
"Horns tooting, bells ringing and special rattles"
Exemplify action
Metaphors
"Wacky Races...Formula 1 without rules"
Reader can empathise with Levine
Juxtapositions
"perched in the boot with a zoom lens pointing out."
Zoomorphism of "perched" juxtaposes the very human object of a zoom lens
Potentially trying to show the difference between animalistic Pakistani society and the developed Western one
"only action was a villager on a wobbly bicycle...cloud of fumes and dust created by some fifty vehicles roaring up in their wake."
Tranquility vs Chaos
Personification
"vehicles jostled"
As if there's 2 races - 1 between the donkeys and 1 between the spectators in their vehicles
"swallowed up by the crowd"
Although it was a potentially dangerous situation it was light-hearted
1st Person + Direct Speech
"We drove off" + "'Coming, coming'"
Makes it more personal
Immerses reader
Further empathication
Title
"A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat"
Unusual so it catches reader's attention
2 activities are juxtaposed
Makes reader wonder what it could be about
Polysyndeton
"and...and...as..."
Adds suspense
Adds chaos
Structure
In media res
"We drove off..."
Emphasises excitement
Suspense
Layout
Several short paragraphs
Allows for intense description but still keeps it chaotic by always moving on
Long vs Short Sentences
Use of polysyndeton makes the sentences very long which creates a hectic and suspensory atmosphere. At the end of the race these stop and become short, concise sentences signifying the end of the event. But, they quickly build up again during the fight after the race
Long = Chaos
Short = Calm