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What is the purpose of the third person narrative?
- Makes the audience relate
- Adds drama
- Makes the speech less about her, and more about every woman.
Subject - the obstacles facing professional women
Occasion - (originally) a speech given to the Women's Service League in 1931
- Published in "The Death of the Mother and Other Essays"
Audience - (originally) The Women's Service League
- Anyone reading her essays (especially women)
Purpose - to reflect and identify the problems facing professional women
- To warn/ predict the need for defeating these obstacles
Speaker - Virginia Woolf (feminist, learned woman)
The speech starts off light hearted, but becomes more urgent and serious as the passage goes on.
Woolf uses anecdotal evidence to argue that women still have difficulties in the workplace.
She ties this together by ensuring that it is known that these experiences were not unique to only her.
Allusion: "And the Phantom..." (349).
Anaphora: "She was intensely..." (349-352).
"Outwardly,..."(352).
Antithesis: "Outwardly...Inwardly,..." (352).
Aporia: "How are you going..." (353).
Metaphor: "You have won rooms..." (353).
Personification: "Her imagination..." (352).
Allusion
Anaphora
Antithesis
Aporia
Metaphor
Personification
In the piece, Woolf discusses the obstacles that are common among women in the workforce
and how they must be stopped.
Diction = Slacks
Negative Connotation: When talking about the "Angel"
- Tormented
- Killed
- Died
Positive Connotation: When talking about the women
- Younger
-Happier
Imagery:
"And then there..." (352).
Details: She included specific details to make it more easily related to
Language: Informal and often abstract
Syntax: Long to Medium sentences
Declarative/Rhetorical Questions