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| alliterationts to create sound of silver bellsrepresent the pleasant time in his life, the bells are pleasant and joyful |
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| jingling and tinkling of bells |
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| onomatopoeiathe words are used to sound like its meaning, the jingling and tinkling enabling the soft pleasant sounds of pleasant bellspurpose: the sounds that the words make are pleasant as is the mood at the current part of the poem |
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| Under one of these gigantic trees according to old stories |
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| framethe frame sets the background of the story, gives it a precedence and a foundation. this frame explains Kidd the pirate burying treasure under a gigantic tree, and the devil presided in the area and took it–it was illgotten just as he likes it. kidd never returnedthe frame is set to make it more plausible |
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| “…shaped in an unalterable mould like Cellini’s cast Perseus.” |
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| Allusion in Moby Dickstory of perseus: perseus gets power from gods to kill medusa.
statue is made of him holding her head. the statue is of solid bronze and has remained unaltered for a long long time. the statue is fixed and cannot be altered just like Ahab’s fixation on the revenge–something that remains unalterable over years. |
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| “He looked like a man cut away from the stake, when the fire was overunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them…” |
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