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H is For Hawk - Coggle Diagram
H is For Hawk
Language
simile
"the box shook as if someone had punched it, hard"
imply how powerful, violent and forceful the hawk is
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word choice
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active verbs
"Then he knelt on the concrete, untied a hinge on the smaller box and squinted into its dark interior."
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"the man was perfectly calm. He gathered up the hawk in one practised movement, folding her wings, anchoring her ... gripping her"
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adjectives
"But as I brought it up to her face I looked into her eyes and saw something blank and crazy in her stare. Some madness from a distant country."
otherness and danger, psychotic & untamable
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asyndeton
"We stared down at the boxes, at their parcel-tape handles, their
doors of thin plywood and hinges of carefully tied string."
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onomatopoeia
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"twittering"
highlights the sound it's making, imply impatient
alliteration
creates rhythm and imbues the sentence with a certain flow, engage the audience
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repetition
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"the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk"
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metaphor
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"her wild eyes were the colour of sun on white paper,"
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polysyndeton
"And with the last bow ... and amidst a whirring, chaotic clatter of wings and feet and talons and a high-pitched twittering and it’s all happening at once ... and in a strange coincidence of world and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury."
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tricolon
"One, two, three"
countdown, imply something is happening, build tension
syndetic listing
"She was smokier and darker and much, much bigger, and instead of twittering, she wailed; great, awful gouts of sound like a thing in pain, and the sound was unbearable."
using comparatives adjectives and repetition, overwhelming
oxymoron
"Slow panic."
mixed emotions, doesn't feel like the right decision
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Structure
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Minor Sentence
"Like us."
shows how she knows humans can be quite predatory; self-aware she can be intimidating in front of the hawk
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Simple / Short Sentence
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"Oh."
internal monologue, short paragraph, interjection mirrors disappointment
"And dear God, it did."
emphatic & colloquial expression, horror
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