Paradise Lost- First Extract

Exercises page 125-126

A) Words particularly important to create Hell as a physical and moral place

Physical place

• Fiery Gulfe
• Waste and wild
• Horrible dungeon
• Great Furnace
• Flames
• Darkness visible
• Every-burning sulphur

Moral place

• Everlasting pain
• Lost happiness
• Affliction
• Regions of sorrow
• Doleful shades
• A place where peace never dwells
• Torture without end
• Hope never comes

B)  Words useful to draw a portrait of Satan

• To lay
• Wrath
• Baleful eyes
• Huge affliction and dismay
• Obdurate pride
• Stedfast hate

2 A) Alliteration

Mortal- men (useful to underline the concept)

Flamed- flames 

Horrid- horror

Waste- wild

B) At line 1 there is assonance between the terms "nine" and "times".

C) Other examples

Wrath - thought - both

Thrice - th'utmost

3) In the extract there are few end-stopped lines. Milton prefers to use run-on lines, which create a sense of expectation in the reader. In addition, choosing run-on lines, Milton provides the reader the felling of a continuous movement in his speech.

4) Unusual word order

Dungeon horrible

Darkness visible

Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd