EXERCISE 1 (pag. 125 - 126)

words which are particularly important to create Hell as a physical place:

fiery Gulfe

waste

wilde

horrible dungeon

great furnace

flames

no light

darkness

fiery deluge

every-burning sulphur

their portion set as far removed from God and light of Heaven as from the center thrice to th'utmost Pole

 

words which are particularly important to creat Hell as a moral place:

lost happiness

lasting pain 

huge affliction

dismay

sights of woe

regions of sorrow

doleful shades

peace and rest can never dwell

hope never comes

torture without end

 

EXERCISE 2

a) Alliteration:

 

Waste - wilde = desolation

Mortal - men

His - horrid = horror

Furnace - flamed - from - flames = fire

Served - sights

 

 

b) Assonance:

 

Nine - times = "i"

 

 

c)  Assonance and consonance:

 

Wrath - thought - both = consonance "th"

Here - thir = assonance "i"

Thrice - th'utmost = consonance "th"

Place - whence = consonance "ce"

 

EXERCISE 3

In the extract I can identify 1 end-stopped line.

Run-on lines create a sense of expectation and suspence. The reading does not stop because there are a lot of enjambement and therefore you can notice a continuous movement from one line to the next.

 

EXERCISE 4

 Unusual word order:

Dismal situation waste and wilde

Dungeon horrible

Darkness visible

Such place Eternal Justice had prepar'd (for those rebellious)

  

The unusual word order makes the reader understand the importance of some words. The poet adopts this linguistic choice to give more relevance to some words. So that the reader can better imagine the situation.