Assisi Flashcards
What technique is used for the lines “The dwarf with his hands on backwards”
Visual imagery
What techniques is used for the lines “sat, slumped like a half-filled sack”
Word choice, alteration, dehumanised, simile, onomatopoeia.
What techniques is used for the lines “on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run,”
Word choice, imagery, visual alliteration, comparison, extended metaphor “half-filled sack… from which sawdust might run.”
What techniques is used for the lines “outside the three tiers of churches built
in honour of St Francis,”
Word choice, comparison, imagery, irony
What techniques is used for the lines “brother
of the poor, talker with birds,”
Word choice
What techniques is used for the lines “over whom he had the advantage of not being dead yet.”
Irony
What techniques is used for the lines “A priest explained how clever it was of Giotto to make his frescoes tell stories”
“A priest” assume the same values as St. Francis. (Help poor/sick/less fortunate)
Giotto frescoes- show you how to become a good person.
Illiterate- uneducated->to learn they have to listen to others or work it out. “Reading” the stories in the paintings.
What techniques is used in the lines “that would reveal to the illiterate the goodness
of God and the suffering of His Son.”
Word choice (illiterate) (God and the suffering of His Son.)
What techniques is used in the lines “I understood the explanation and the cleverness.”
Ironic ( because the priest should be doing what St. Francis taught.)
Hypocrisy
What techniques is used in the lines “A rush of tourists, clucking contentedly, fluttered after him as he scattered the grain of the Word.”
Metaphor - comparison to chickens
Onomatopoeia - sound happy
Alliteration - they sound happy - implies they are ignorant.
Extended metaphor-clucking fluttered grain, Metaphor- speaking “scattered”
Metaphor biblical teachings, irony/hypocrisy
What techniques is used in the lines “It was they who had passed the ruined temple outside,”
Metaphor - beggar
Connotation - not being looked after.
Denotation - broken/left to crumble/beyond repair.
Connotation- by ignoring the beggar we are disrespecting St F and gods laws.
Juxtaposition-“three tiers”/“ruined temple.”
What techniques is used in the lines “whose eyes wept pus,”
Visual imagery-gross/revolt.
Metaphor
What techniques is used in the lines “whose back was higher than his head,”
Visual imagery- spine curved inwards at the top/head dips into his body/physical deformity
What techniques is used in the lines “whose lopsided mouth”
Visual imagery- hanging off from one side/non symmetrical
Word choice.
What techniques is used in the lines “said Grazie in a voice as sweet as a child’s when she speaks to her mother”
Audio imagery
Similes
Comparison
Metaphor
