Throughout chapter five of Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” anaphora and asyndeton are utilized in order to depict how the poverty in France was driven into the minds and lives of the peasants due to the negligence of the rich, conceiving a revolution lead by the people. Dickens renders the situation for the peasants in France to be extremely impoverished, such that while describing the peasants’ lifestyles, he inserts the word “Hunger” at the beginning of each sentence. This use of anaphora exemplifies the situation of complete and utter destitute in France under the aristocracy; such that this prevalent use of the word hunger conveys the terribly poor situation in France, and it is continuously forced into both our and the peasants’
