One feature which Aditya Chakrabortty uses in the text is personification. He uses it where he says: the 72 storey skyscraper that already stalks Londoners everywhere they go. This is an example of personification because it gives a building human like features and characteristics. It also says it ‘glowers over our conversations in Peckham’. This is also something a building obviously cannot do. Aditya uses this feature so we know how the Shard ‘feels’ about Peckham. Peckham is used as an example as it is a place where people discredit it. He knows that people have prejudice of Peckham by wealthier people and the Shard is used as an example of upper class people. Overall, the Shard is used as a way to show how richer people despise people from Peckham.
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December 18, 2015 at 10:29 am
Joseph,
I know you didn’t want to read this out in class (I’m not sure why that is – I might explore that with you at some stage if I may?), but notwithstanding that, it’s an excellent execution of the kind of analysis I was looking for.
If you’d developed answers like that in the exam, you’d have done very well.
Do you feel a little clearer about what is required now? You certainly have the ability to provide what is needed!
CW