Please hold - language

What language features are used?

• Sature, dark humour, irony and sarcasm

• conversational tone

• robitic language

• juxtaposition

What is the effect of satirical language and dark humour?

The use of humour creates a more personal human connection with the reader and the use of sarcasm emphasises the speakr’s frustration. The juxtaposition between the robot’s false indness: ‘wonderful’ and ‘great’ emphasise the false promises of the technology

What is the effect of the conversational tone?

The conversational tone makes the poem more relatable as it mirrors every day interactions - highlighting a shared frustration

What is the effect of the robotic language

The robotic language both from the autonomous system and the peole in the poem (agent and the wife) emphasises not just a corporatoioin or system but a movement by society as a whole away from human interaction and toward the capitalist priorities of efficiency and proft

What is the effect of the use of juxtaposition

The juxtaposition between the speaker’s frustration and the wife’s calmness emphasises her acceptance of the bleak future, and that resistance appears to be a rarity. The juxtaposition between the speaker’s frustration and the robot’s compliments contribute to the satire and sarcasm