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Personifcation

The emphasis of the personification phrase 'The feeble light is wasting gradually' suggests that the light is 'wasting' away as time continuously travels by and as it fades away so to does the prisoners hope. This makes the audience relate to the prisoners in the story due to the weakness that is conveyed in the adjective 'feeble'. The effect that this brings onto the reader is that it relates to the phrase 'light could struggle' proposing that both the light and prisoners are struggling through a comparable situation. 

 

 

Post-modification

Charles Dickens describes the meaning of  "A stone dungeon", using the post -modification "eight feet long by six feet wide". This extra description shows how  uncomfortable it is due to the size of the dungeon, giving a realistic dimension for the reader.