At the beginning, I'm going to deal with his description of Ireland.
The author emphasizes Irelands's precious by employing a metaphor when he describes Ireland as "the juwel of Europe" (l.9).
Furthermore the use of another metaphor in line 125 is meant to reveal Ireland as an innocent victim.
Besides it wants the reader to pity Ireland.
Aditionally the essay contains an exaggeration at the time when he points out Ireland's success of "intellectual and artistic progress" as an "golden age" (l.40).
Moreover he underscores the amazing Ireland by employing several positive adjectives and adverbs like "small and beautiful" (l.9) and "strikingly green landscape" (l.21), whereas the description of England is the complete opposite.
This is expressed by means of the negative adjectives "brutal political power" (l.62) and "extreme cruelty" (l.62), with which John Tarver evokes the impression that England is to blame for everything.
"Better job, better housing, better schools" (l.104). This is a repetition which makes the reader aware of the injustice between Ireland and England.
The comparison "in most aspects of life Ireland was ahead of England" (l.48) refers to the Irish superiority.
This is once more emphasized as the author employs another comparison when he points out that "it took the English over six hundred years to finally get Ireland integrated" (ll.11-12).
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