This is in a poem.
Guttering choking drowning literary device.
H if in some smothering dreams you too could pace i behind the wagon that we flung him in j and watch the white eyes writhing in his face i his hanging face like a devil s sick of sin.
In all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me guttering choking drowning literary devices.
17 if in some smothering dreams you too could pace.
I think alliteration but tigess ess comes at the end.
What device would that be.
Bent double like old beggars under sacks knock kneed coughing like hags we cursed through sludge till on the haunting flares we turned our backs and towards our distant.
J if you could hear at every jolt the blood k come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs l.
Obviously the natural falling rhythm of these words created by the stressed syllable followed by the unstressed nasal sound is an attempt to convey the staggers and stumbles of the dying soldier.
Because the trio of verbs are verbs that end in ing it gives the sense that the action is in the present tense.
More repetition can be seen with the use of repetitive suffixes in line 16 when the speaker explains that the man is guttering choking drowning dulce 16.
By straying from the structure of the iambic pentameter occasionally owen puts emphasis on particular lines pertaining to the nightmares of the soldier in all my dreams before me helpless sight he plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
This sound is repeated in the couplet which follows the description of the soldier s painful death in the triple of verbs guttering choking drowning.
Analysis of the literary devices used in dulce et decorum est.
Swift with swiftness of the tigress.
He plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
These themes are foregrounded in powerful phrases such as like old beggars under sacks haunting flares blood shod guttering choking drowning just to show that the poem depicts this universal thematic idea.
This repetition uses strong consonants which create an unpleasant sound when spoken aloud which adds to the unpleasantness of the central theme.
Extended metaphor drowning choking on gas verbs onomatopoeia noun dreams adjective noun combination helpless sight.
14 as under a green sea i saw him drowning.
15 in all my dreams before my helpless sight 16 he plunges at me guttering choking drowning.
The s sound repeats.
Also these three verbs guttering choking and drowning are brutal merciless verbs.
I can t figure out if it is a literary device like assonance consonance etc and also.
