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TECHNIQUES USED IN BRUCE DAWES POEMS
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other.
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like their meanings.
Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect.
Rhyme: Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, are said to rhyme.
Analogy: A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.
Apostrophe: Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name.
Contrast: Closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics.
Hyperbole: An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.
Irony: A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other.
Oxymoron: A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
Paradox: A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth.
Personification: Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
Pun: Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds.
Simile: A direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
Symbol: An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.
Rhetorical Question: A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer.
THEMES USED IN BRUCE DAWE'S POEMS
Weapon's Training
· The poem is an example of a sergeant dressing down a squad of recently enlisted recruits, likely for the air force of an Asian Campaign (references to “mob of little yellows”, “a pack of Charlie’s” and “their rotten fish-sauce breath” suggest Vietnam War a distinctive brand of in-built
Alliteration: Repeated consonant sounds at the beginning of words placed near each other.
Onomatopoeia: Words that sound like their meanings.
Repetition: The purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect.
Rhyme: Words that have different beginning sounds but whose endings sound alike, including the final vowel sound and everything following it, are said to rhyme.
Analogy: A comparison, usually something unfamiliar with something familiar.
Apostrophe: Speaking directly to a real or imagined listener or inanimate object; addressing that person or thing by name.
Contrast: Closely arranged things with strikingly different characteristics.
Hyperbole: An outrageous exaggeration used for effect.
Irony: A contradictory statement or situation to reveal a reality different from what appears to be true.
Metaphor: A direct comparison between two unlike things, stating that one is the other or does the action of the other.
Oxymoron: A combination of two words that appear to contradict each other.
Paradox: A statement in which a seeming contradiction may reveal an unexpected truth.
Personification: Attributing human characteristics to an inanimate object, animal, or abstract idea.
Pun: Word play in which words with totally different meanings have similar or identical sounds.
Simile: A direct comparison of two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
Symbol: An ordinary object, event, animal, or person to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.
Rhetorical Question: A question solely for effect, which does not require an answer.
THEMES USED IN BRUCE DAWE'S POEMS
Weapon's Training
· The poem is an example of a sergeant dressing down a squad of recently enlisted recruits, likely for the air force of an Asian Campaign (references to “mob of little yellows”, “a pack of Charlie’s” and “their rotten fish-sauce breath” suggest Vietnam War a distinctive brand of in-built