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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| “We laid our hands on a stone parapet’s fading life” | Techniques: Personification and the collective pronoun “we” transience of life. |
| “Part of the city, to our left, was fruit shop bright. After the summer day, a huge moist hush” | Technique: Juxtaposition. transience of life |
| “A sky of mulberry and orange chiffon” | Techniques: Metaphor and Juxtaposition. complex relationship between humanity and the natural environment |
| “And we come to a landscape of tin cans of cars like skulls” | Techniques: Simile and Imagery. transience of life |
| “Behind us, the city driven like stakes into the earth” | Technique: Simile. complex relationship between humanity and the natural environment |
| “Somewhere the voices it received are still travelling around the arc of the universe” | Technique: Metaphor. complex relationship between humanity and the natural environment |