Tension Homework 16th September Georgia Font
The writer structures the
text by using adjectives, verbs and adverbs to create tension.
He uses dramatic adverbs,
adjectives and verbs to make the text interesting e.g “I lolled on the rope,
scarcely able to hold my head up…” The
way he feels in the opening paragraph is scared and the urge to die quickly
instead of slowly, the evidence of these feelings are- “an awful weariness
washed through me…” and “with fervent hope that this endless hanging would soon
be over. There was no need for the torture...”
The fears and thoughts that he shares with the
reader are terror-He feels this way because he knows that he will die one way
or another, and that he just wants it to be over quick, the evidence is, “I wanted
with all my heart for it to finish”. Also, he believed his partner would die
with him- He feels this way because Simon kept lowering him and eventually (if
he didn’t cut the rope) he would fall as well, the evidence is “How long will
you be, Simon? I thought How long before you join me?”
The way the passage ends
is sudden. The text says that what he had waited for pounced on him,
which gives a dramatic feel into the text; he does this by using a powerful verb.
Then he says that he fell silently, endlessly into nothingness, as if dreaming
of falling, this makes the text interesting because the reader instantly thinks
that he is going to die.
