Homework - 27/1/12 - Due in: Wed 1/2/12

There are five Of Mice and Men quotations below.  For each of the quotations:

1. Name the language feature,
2. Analyse the language feature,
3. Do a word level analysis.

Attach your work as a comment to this post.

1) 'She struggled violently under his hands.'

2) 'Her feet battered on the hay and she writhed to be free.'

3) 'And she continued to struggle, and her eyes were wild with terror.'

4) 'He shook her then, and he was angry with her.'

5) 'and her body flopped like a fish.  And then she was still, for Lennie had broken her neck.'

Steinbeck uses a metaphor, 'The silence fell on the room’, and to show that the killing of Candy's other half was gratuitous. He also foreshadows that Candy if feeling miasma-like by using the adverb 'again'. In addition Steinbeck also uses, 'It came out of the night and invaded the room.’ to foreshadow that now, after the death of Candy's dog, the once auxiliaries off Candy, have become nothing but a repugnant after taste of his life.
by akash

Of Mice and Men quotations to analyse

 There are five Of Mice and Men quotations below.  For each of the quotations:

1. Name the language feature,
2. Analyse the language feature,
3. Do a word level analysis.

Attach your work as a comment to this post.

Situation:  Candy, and the rest of the men in the bunkhouse, are waiting for Carlson to shoot Candy's dog.

1) 'The silence fell on the room again.  It came out of the night and invaded the room.'

2) 'They took places opposite each other at the table under the light, but George did not shuffle the cards.  He rippled the edge of the deck nervously..'

3) 'A minute passed, and another minute.'

4) 'A shot sounded in the distance.  The men looked quickly at the old man.  Every head turned towards him.'

5) 'For a moment he continued to stare at the ceiling.  Then he rolled slowly over and faced the wall and lay silent.'