Night

"there must have been a cloud around that word" (Line 27) (3 points)

1. Metaphor

2. they never used the word cancer about the growth or even spoke of the idea that it could have been cancer

3. if this were to happen today, cancer and tumours would have been brought up almost immediately this shows the difference in the time she grew up in.

"snow sitting in a sombre way" (Line 13-14) (3 points)

1. Sibilance and pathetic fallacy

2. creates a feeling of mournfulness, melancholy atmosphere

3. snow is often associated with happiness, excitement, joyful times but this creates the impression of stillness, softness and the quiet dampening of sound after snowfall.

First Person narrative (3 points)

1. First person

2. Makes the reader feel more connected to the character.

3. Helps show the characters point of view

"struck" (Line 8) (3 points)

1. Choice of verb

2. harsh verb showing the suddenness of pain

3. struck has connotations of violence and being hit showing she feels like she has no control over the pain.

"evergreens" (Line 14) (3 points)

1. Vocabulary choice

2. symbol of life and immortality as they remain green all year.

3. draws attention to her feelings of mortality after the operation

"top bunk" (Line 39-43) (3 points)

1. Shows she is more dominant in the relationship than her sister

2. Being on the top bunk means she is above the sister and look down on her, symbolic of their relationship power dynamic

3. Top bunks are often more coveted and this again shows she has the better bunk than her sister because of her greater power in the relationship

"uselessness and strangeness" (Line 62) (3 points)

1. Vocabulary/word choice

2. shows that she has feelings of low self worth and isolation

3. When you feel strange you can feel you don't fit in

"wide awake" (Line 65) (3 points)

1. Repetition

2. for emphasis in a long sentence to show how long the nights were

3. and how restless she was feeling

"fell away" (Line 74) (4 points)

1. Repetition

2. creates a feeling of emptiness and loss.

3. Makes the night feel vast and empty

4. symbolic of how she is feeling, because like the furniture, she isn't being noticed or talked to and she is hiding herself away.

"left to make up my own mind" (Line 69) (3 points)

1. Language choice

2. she is abandoned and lost.

3. The freedom she has to decide for herself is almost unwanted, she wants to be noticed and helped.

"stranger place" (Line 73) (2 points)

1. Vocab choice

2. creates the feeling that her home feels alien to her as night falls.

"You" (Line 76) (2 points)

1. Direct address to the reader

2. involves the reader, engages them

"hardly of my own volition" (Line 80) (3 points)

1. Vocab choice

2. they feel the thoughts are beyond their control

3. and it shows the characters feelings of increasing loss of control

"mock me" "absurdity" "random" (Lines 80, 81) (2 points)

1. Vocab choice

2. derogatory and self critical

"So who do you think you are then?" (Line 86) (3 points)

1. Rhetorical question within an internal monologue using a direct address to the reader

2. Questioning their own identity

3. as a result of the isolation and unwanted thoughts.

"something" "it" "thing" (3 points)

1. non specific pronouns

2. by not naming it the writer creates a feeling of mystery

3. and not knowing what it is creates a feeling of tension or menace.

"fight it off" (Line 92-93) (2 points)

1. emotive language

2. aggressive, creates an impression of desperation and internal battle or war

"utterly cold deep thought" (Line 98) (2 points)

1. Adverb choice

2. emphasises the cruel feeling or nature of the thought.

"no" (Line 97, 98) (5 points)

1. Repetition

2. emphasises the lack of motive for the thought

3. normally if someone was thinking of hurting someone there would be rage or anger or revenge, heat and action.

4. This thought is cold and it creates a feeling of discomfort with the reader

5. reflects the discomfort the writer has with the thought.

"the thought" starting 2 concurrent sentences (Line 101, 102) (4 points)

1. Repetition at the start of sentences and paragraph

2. Builds tension and intrigue around what the thought is.

3. Repetition builds emphasis which makes something feel important to the reader.

4. This repetition makes the idea of the thought feel significant, in the way it was significant to the writer at the time.

"madness lying right beside me" (Line. 104-105) (4 points)

1. personification

2. it creates the impression that the madness has a physical presence that is separate from the girl.

3. because the madness has a physical presence it feels as if it is manifesting and might actually happen.

4. It also feels like the girl is losing control of these thoughts as they take on a life of their own.

"why not? Why not..." (Line 108) (2 points)

1. Anadipolis (ending of a sentence is the same as the start of the next)

2. Creates the impression of temptation and urges becoming more uncontrollable.

"I could not help it" (Line 111) (3 points)

1. Negative Language

2. Shows how helpless she is feeling

3. It shows she feels that these thoughts are wrong and she doesn't want to be blamed or judged for them.

"no streetlights". "too far from town" (Line 121) (3 points)

1. choosing what to describe, language choice, setting

2. makes it feel more isolated.

3. this reflects her feelings of isolation.

"Everything was larger" (Line 122) (3 points)

1. Hyperbole

2. Shows how she feels smaller and weaker

3. Links to feelings of powerlessness and reflects her experience of how the thoughts become 'bigger' and more powerful at night

"Intensely black". (Line 124) (3 points)

1. Adverb choice/vocabulary choice

2. amplifies and emphasises the darkness

3. makes the darkness seem inscrutable like the thought she is having.

"clung together" (Line 124) (4 points)

1. Verb choice

2. by clinging it implies they feel threatened and want to seek comfort from each other

3. This relates to how the character wants to seek comfort but does not/cannot.

4. Creates an impression of her vulnerability.

"absurd" (Line 144) (3 points)

1. Repetition and use of a single word paragraph

2. Repetition to emphasise, further emphasised by single word paragraph.

3. the thoughts sand difficulties she is experiencing at night seem ludicrous and easily dismissed in daytime.

"Since I did not speak of my night difficulties." (Line 148) (2 points)

1. Shows her sense of isolation

2. Her fear of confessing to the thoughts she is having

"The demons got hold of me again" (Line 151) (4 points)

1. Personification

2. likens her thoughts to demons who are grabbing and holding her

3. Makes the thoughts seem evil, scary

4. brings into the mind of the reader ideas of hell and evil in relation to the thoughts

"Twentieth or twelfth or..." (Line 164-165) (3 points)

1. Polysyndeton (warped sense of time)

2. creates the feeling that it is going on forever

3. makes you think her mental state may be worsening as she is losing sense of time.

"Somebody" (Line 166) (2 points)

1. repetition using non specific pronoun

2. Creates tension, leaves questions in the readers mind

"Nobody but my father." (Line 169) (2 points)

1. Hypophora

2. quickly relieves tension

"taking up the corners everywhere." (Line 184) (2 points)

1. Personification

2. Make the thoughts seem oppressive, inescapable.

When she describes returning to school (Lines 33-35) (2 points)

1. Shift in tone

2. The quick shift to an upbeat tone suggests the operation and the growth had little impact on her

"a growth" (Line 23) (2 points)

1. anadiplosis (ending sentence with same phrase as start of next one)

2. Repetition emphasises and draws readers attention to the growth

"But don't worry....." (Line 124) (4 points)

1. 1 sentence paragraph

2. Reflects the dismissive tone of her mother about the removal of the growth.

3. Suggests that maybe the mother has bigger things than the growth to be worried about

4. that their relationship is perfunctory

"Nobody knew a thing the matter with me" (Line 35) (3 points)

1. Foreshadowing

2. implies that there will be something wrong with her

3. this creates intrigue in the reader and concern for the character

"I was not myself" (Line 83) (2 points)

1. Single line paragraph

2. isolated for emphasis.

Lines 130-139 (2 points)

1. Shift in focus

2. The shift to focus on actions as a distraction

Lines 161-163 (3 points)

1. Listing

2. The list creates a feeling of a familiar routine

3. This routine is what she needs