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The First Year of My Life - Coggle Diagram
The First Year of My Life
Detached construction
Babies, in their waking hours, know everything -
to emphasize the period of life
My mother’s brother, dressed in his uniform, came coughing - to show his clothers
Anadiplosis
it will be given to the world, and the world will be convinced -
to emphasize the appearance of the theory
Break-in-the-narrative
My autobiography, as I very well perceived at the time, started in the very worst year -
to show author's reasoning
Anaphora
I tuned in to the Czar... I tuned in to the Czar -
to emphasize the narrator's time of birth - troubled time
Metonomy
The Western Front on my frequency was sheer blood, mud, dismembered bodies, blistered crashes, hectic flashes of light in the night skies, explosions, total terror -
to show the terror of war
Reversed epithet
Red sheets of flame -
to describe the beginning of German Spring Offensive
Climax
the people were starving, freezing, striking, rioting and yelling in the streets - gradual increase in emotional tension
to show that terrible situation in Berlin and Vienna
antonomasia
direct - yak-yak-yak -
to show unknown language (Turkish)
then to represent conversation about the Silver Wedding
indirect - Some of these things rattled and squawked -
to show sounds which those things could make
direct - Crack, crack, went the guns -
to represent guns' sounds
Stylistic inversion
In and out came and went the women in British black -
to show women buzzing around
went the guns -
to show the beginning of a skirmish
Represented speech
‘She hasn’t smiled yet?’ said the dreary old aunties. -
to represent other character's words
Compound epithet
black-draped friends -
to describe their appearance
Personification
I have a rendezvous with Death - in poetic speech -
to show "meeting" with death
Simile
die as cattle -
to show that deaths were unimportant and brutal
Simple epithet
stout man -
to describe a man