Why Has He Seen A Killer Die Analysis

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article Hall used many different emotive language techniques to grab the audience’s attention.
The title is written white on black which would catch your attention as this is the opposite way round to that it would normally be the title suggests a lot about the story. The title is written in the first person which captures your attention and makes you inquisitive as to ‘Why has he seen a killer die?’ this is most likely the intended impact on the audience to create a sense of mystery and question as this would not be the everyday event to take place so this makes people want to read on. The word ‘See’ would suggest that he did not want to see this, You can see things without always intending to do so and this is what I think the writer is
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This heading is catchy and appealing and grasps the audience’s attention. The last word in this title makes the reader think the most because it is a unusual yet clever choice of words; ‘Die’ this would suggest that it was not intended and it shows that the killer is dead which creates mystery and unusual debates as to ‘Why would the killer be dead?’ Therefor you read on with the article to find out more as from the title you are confused about what has happened, this was …show more content…
This is the last thing that is said in the article and I think that Harris chose to put this here on purpose to make you think and make you remember the last things that he said as the phrase himself means that everyone will die in the end. This is not what you would expect a person’s last words to be as most people’s last words would say something meaningful but he appeared to want people to remember him as being inhumane. I do not believe that he wanted people to look upon him as a person like most others; he wanted to stand out and be

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