Choosing your own examples, Comment of the effect of Language that interests you in the poem.

... Ancestral Photograph Question: Choosing your own examples, Comment of the effect of Language that interests you in the poem. Answer There are several language devices used in "Ancestral Photograph". To start off, Heaney used simile in the first line, "solid as a turnip", this phrase suggests that the jaw of the person in the picture is stiffed and unnatural because of the word "solid" meaning something hard. Except for the phrase mentioned above, there are more that suggests the tension that the person had in the picture. "Dead eyes are statue's" also suggests a tensed atmosphere because "statue" is a non living thing and it wont move, hence suggesting the person was just like a statue not being able to move. Enjambments were used widely in this poem, for example, from line 2 to 3 "upper lip...Bullies". The enjambment emphasized the mouth action of the person; the upper lip was bullying the lower

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