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Kinesthetic Imagery in"A Tale of Two Cities"
Summary: Explores the use of kinesthetic imagery in chapter 7 of the novel, A tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens. Describes how Dickens' use of certain words assist in mood, character development, and setting.
"With a wild rattle and clatter, and an inhuman abandonment of consideration not easy to be understood in these days, the carriage dashed through streets and swept round corners, with women screaming before it, and men clutching each other and clutching children out of its way. At last, swooping at a street corner by a fountain, one of its wheels came to a sickening little jolt, and there was a loud city from a number of voices, and the horses reared and plunged." (Dickens 106).
Dickens' passage in this chapter has great diction with the connotative words that he uses to describe the actions of the carriage and the reactions of the crowd before it. These words assist in mood, character development, and setting. Some of the word choices such as "dashed" provide a hurried, spinning image of the carriage racing through the streets. This implies how the Monsieur...
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