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horse the size of a mountain, cutting pine trees to weave into it for ribs.
Irony womb carrying death
Except, of course, he is
the sky was turning and night was rushing up from the Ocean to envelop in its great shadow the earth, the sky and
Pathetic fallacy - when the weather or habitat in some way reflects the danger or threat posed by human interaction.
like a shepherd when a furious south wind is carrying fire
into a field of grain, or a mountain river whirls along in spate, flattening all the fields, the growing crops and all the labour of oxen, carrying great trees headlong down in its floods while the shepherd stands stupefied on the top of the rock, listening to the sound without knowing 310 what it is.
Powerful simile shows Aeneas's shock and horror at the events unfolding - he is hardly able to understand the extent of what he is seeing. The Greeks as an unstoppable force of nature - and connection back to Aeneas as a shepherd watching the flood race down the mountainside (earlier simile)
like wolves foraging blindly on a misty night, driven out of their lairs by a ravening hunger that gives them no rest and leaving their young behind to wait for them with their throats all dry, we ran the gauntlet of the enemy to certain death,
Who could unfold the horrors of that night? Who could speak of such slaughter? Who could weep tears to match that suffering?
Rhetorical questions
like a man going through rough briers who steps on a snake with all his weight without seeing it, and starts back in sudden panic as it raises its wrath and puffs up its blue-green neck: that is how Androgeos recoiled in terror at the sight of us.
If it had been my fate to fall, my right hand fully earned it.
Here Aeneas wishes to explain why he did not fight to the death in Troy.
He was like a snake which has fed on poisonous herbs and hidden all winter in the cold earth, but now it emerges into the light, casts its slough and is renewed. Glistening with youth, it coils its slithering back and lifts its breast high to the sun with its triple tongue flickering from its mouth.
No river foaming in spate was ever like this, bursting its banks and leaving its channel to overwhelm everything in its path with its swirling current, as it bears down furiously on ploughed fields in a great wave, and cattle and their pens are swept all over the
plains.
Down fell the fifty bedchambers with all the hopes for generations yet to come,
Pathetic fallacy
like doves driven down in a black storm.
a sudden peal of thunder rang out on the left and a star fell from the sky, trailing a great torch of light in its course through the darkness. We watched it glide over the topmost pinnacles of the house and bury itself, still bright, in the woods of Mount Ida, leaving its path marked out behind it,
Pathetic fallacy - when the weather/climate/surroundings in some way echo the ups and downs of the plot and the emotions of the characters. PF is the use of this device to give more power to am image and to convey and idea clearly to a reader.
