Angela Clarence's 'Children Of The Stars'

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Children of the stars is a passage written by Angela Clarence for 'The Observer'. It talks about the tribe living in the Los Roques islands, located in Venezuela. The passage describes both the natives and the visitors, and the flora and fauna. The explanation in the ' Children of the stars' is intresting, but how was she able to acheave it? To begin with, she uses different poetic devices, different styles and specific vocabulary. These material are important, for they dive a more realistic and animated description. The author specificaly choose the vocabulary because it gives a specific and unique effect on the reader.Firstly, we can find several words illustrating th five senses. For instance, we have palatable for taste, noisy for hearing and soft for touch. The previews words give a more realistic and emerge the beaches of Los Roques in front of us. Secondly, the colors she used make the animals, plants she describes more colorful and unconventional. Such as her way to describe the color of the morph butterfly with the vivid electric-blue. Thirdly, The types of verbs she uses are for a precise function. The use of these verbs is to emphazise of the subject of the sentence. …show more content…

The poetic devises found in the passage are metaphores,similes, assonance , alliterations and enumeration.Primarly, the usage of metaphores and similies are to create an example for the reader, as seen in the phrase '... wall of green jungle.'. Another use of them are to create a beautiful image for the reader as in '... to unfurl like a flower...'. Next, the use alliteration ,found in the repetition of the 'k' sound in line 3, is used to make the reader focuse on that part of the text. Finaly, the role of enumration, which is positioned in the lines eight to forteen in the passsage, is to ampliphy the components the subject is devided

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