Mthokozisi DludlaEng2601
Mthokozisi Dludla
Eng2601 Assignment 1
Student number: 53709640
Unique number: 730078
Introduction
In this two extracts we going to be analysing the way this two extracts correspond with each other. After reading both the extracts I notice both extracts belong to the same genre, how the general tone in both extracts is sad, bitter and emotional. This is supported by the writer’s phrases, diction and register. Extract 1 describes the ruthless hangings of rebels of German and there use of emotive language it focuses on the victims. Extract 2 the detail on the hanging of a man, a boy and the girl who opposed the German rule.
Body
Both extracts belong to the same genre. In both texts this is encouraged by the ruthless situation and action concerning people freedom and liberation. In both texts the words “we are partisans and we have shot/fired at German soldiers” are indicated. More over the texts are most likely to happen in German. The writer uses the most likely to happen in German. The writer uses the synonymy cohesion of the words “shot and fired”. Since the texts are about hanging of people we could assume that the genre is about apartheid period.
The general tone in both texts is sad, bitter and emotional. Focusing on extract 1 is about the public hanging where partisans or activists are hanged publicly. The writer uses the phrases like “the hanging was brutal to the victims that were hanged, they were not hooded or blinded death was slow” to show the emotion, sadness and bitterness. The diction brutal, hanged, hooded crude probably shows the extreme harshness of how the victims were hanged and killed.
Additionally the phrase “death was slow” this phrase is pedicting that the partisans were hanged very slowy until they reach their final death. Another phrase “the gallows were crude, this phrase, however reveals the dirty of the gallows that even in the place where they were hanged was very dirty and unpolished. They were not hooded or blindfolded by this
Eng2601 Assignment 1
Student number: 53709640
Unique number: 730078
Introduction
In this two extracts we going to be analysing the way this two extracts correspond with each other. After reading both the extracts I notice both extracts belong to the same genre, how the general tone in both extracts is sad, bitter and emotional. This is supported by the writer’s phrases, diction and register. Extract 1 describes the ruthless hangings of rebels of German and there use of emotive language it focuses on the victims. Extract 2 the detail on the hanging of a man, a boy and the girl who opposed the German rule.
Body
Both extracts belong to the same genre. In both texts this is encouraged by the ruthless situation and action concerning people freedom and liberation. In both texts the words “we are partisans and we have shot/fired at German soldiers” are indicated. More over the texts are most likely to happen in German. The writer uses the most likely to happen in German. The writer uses the synonymy cohesion of the words “shot and fired”. Since the texts are about hanging of people we could assume that the genre is about apartheid period.
The general tone in both texts is sad, bitter and emotional. Focusing on extract 1 is about the public hanging where partisans or activists are hanged publicly. The writer uses the phrases like “the hanging was brutal to the victims that were hanged, they were not hooded or blinded death was slow” to show the emotion, sadness and bitterness. The diction brutal, hanged, hooded crude probably shows the extreme harshness of how the victims were hanged and killed.
Additionally the phrase “death was slow” this phrase is pedicting that the partisans were hanged very slowy until they reach their final death. Another phrase “the gallows were crude, this phrase, however reveals the dirty of the gallows that even in the place where they were hanged was very dirty and unpolished. They were not hooded or blindfolded by this