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Thursday, 26 September 2002 Jad Salfiti A2 English Vera Brittain Critical Appreciation. The writer's creation of tension through narrative and description, and her choice of vocabulary and description. environment This passage of prose' is written by Vera Brittain who served as a nurse in the First World War (1914-1918), as a narrator she uses many techniques to create tension through narrative and description, and her voice of vocabulary. This prose is written in 1st person and is retrospective. It uses many techniques and devices to heighten the drama. The prose commences with the date "March 20th" this lends authenticity, the rest of the paragraph is written in a very prosaic, mundane tone as the narrator describes how and she had arranged to meet a friend (Hope Milroy), before they both left a report was being discusses between staff regarding an enemy onslaught on British lines. The prose is downbeat, low-key, and, the narrator has used...

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