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The Funeral Passage Diction

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In “The Funeral Passage”, the tones of detachment and condescension reflect the speaker’s twisted amusement and attitude towards a lower-class funeral. The author’s detail illustrates the speaker’s mini adventure upon discovering a lower-class funeral procession and their thoughts towards it. The speaker “emerge[s] accidentally” into the midst of a funeral that was so peculiar, “the spectacle was one [they would] have been sorry to miss”. The speaker had the fortuity of happening upon a funeral for a well-known lower-class London citizen. The speaker’s particular use of the word “spectacle” immediately tells the reader that the speaker doesn’t particularly care or feel saddened about the fact that there is a funeral currently happening. The
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