Topic 10 (session A) - Prose analysis > Bilgewater: Foregrounding > Task A

Bilgewater: Foregrounded features

Task A - Phonetic parallelism

The two sentences below have phonetic and orthographic parallelism in them (we have highlighted the relevant parts).

Identify the parallelism and work out its function in the two sentences. Then compare your effort with what we say.

Outside the bleak and brutal Cambridge afternoon - December and raining. (4)

But it is damp, old, cold, cold, cold. (68)

our answer

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