The key answer of exercise 4
The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 - More than words for the textbook Speakout Advanced Plus - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education
Question
Listen and check your ideas.
Answer
Yeats
- rich imagery → compares love to the sky, universe, stars, beautiful cloth
- trust → putting hopes and dreams under her feet
- elegant style → the opening two lines
- repetition → 'cloths, light, feet, dreams, tread'
McGough
- a breakdown in communication → a quiet explanation is perceived as shouting
- seeing the relationship from outside → I love the way it is described as if from the outside
- direct and simple language → actions are described as seen, no interpretation; conversational language
- paradox → we're aware of our foolishness, but can't act differently
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