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Weapons Training: The Power Of Speech

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Individuals upsurge their powers in society by developing their skills in speech that will eventually empowering over others and stimulating sense of powerlessness in individuals. In the case of Weapons Training, Dawe alerts responders the power of authority in a Sergeant’s potent speech with pejorative language, ‘unsightly fat between your elephant ears open that drain you call a mind’ as it insults the troops with graphic visual imageries as the brain been metaphorically personified and juxtaposed to the drain. This, combined with the assonance of the hyperbole, the persona is allowed to adapt a faster pace and to promote the intensive tone that hence, further accentuating the persona’s power. Moreover, the poem ends dramatically as Dawe states ‘you’re dead, dead, dead’, in which it foreshadows the recruits’ deaths and yet, reinforcing the crudity of wars and reality through the repetition of ‘dead’. …show more content…

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