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cetacean techs

sound techniques, visual imagery, anaphora

storm-wind techs

personification, alitteration, imagery (ANALOGY)

dolphins techs

sound techniques, semantic field, repetition (diacope), caesura (structural)

coming techs

sound techniques, epizeuxis, imagery (personification, simile, metaphor)

parrot techs

anthropomorphism, juxtaposition, semantic field (illness)

taronga techs

anthropomorphism (“They chatter and they squawk and sometimes scream.”), visual imagery (simile: “Range of tender colours, thick as old brocade, or shot silk”), caesura (for contrast: “A lidded eye observes, and it reflects.”), symbolism (“languid vanity, wildest greed”)

stormcock techs

alliteration, simile, visual imagery

darkling techs

personification, visual imagery (simile), semantic field

volta: contrast of 1st and 2nd half

eel techs

metaphor (symbolism: “Preliminary, pre-world creatures, cousins of the moon”; “(dream-lines) Long roots of the penumbra”), structural repetition (circling back on itself; eg parallelism, diacope, refrain - “..as soon as you see her/…as soon as you say so”; “You keep looking and looking”; “Untranslatable hissed interruptions”; “as soon as you see them/gone”), personification (division between human and nature; “Just a smirk of ripples”)

sea eats the land techs

metaphor (personification), sound techniques (refrain), structure

aus techs

simile, sound techniques (fricative, plosive, sibilance), repetition (anaphora, triplet)

you will know techs

metaphor (embracing death), sound technques (sibilance, enjambment

spring techs

juxtaposition, personification, structural (couplet), imagery