We all wish we (1) ..could...... remember things more easily, but sometimes we can't remember anything at all. What (2) ................. you do in this situation? (3) .................. one day you woke up and discovered that you had completely lost your memory. How (4) ................. you feel exactly? I had to face up to this recently after I fell off my bike and hit my head. I woke up in hospital, and a doctor asked me what my name was. I thought about it for a moment and then said, 'I wish | (5) ........... !' Then I tried to get up and said, 'It's (6) ............ was at college!' I'd (7) ................. you didn't do that,' said the doctor. 'If you move too much, you (8) .............. probably fall over. I'm going to give you an injection. I (9) ............ it doesn't hurt too much!'|| (10) .................. you hadn't said that,' I replied. 'Now I'm really worried! Then I noticed a label on my wrist with my name on it. If I (11) .......... noticed this, I wouldn't have known who I was! When my memory came back a few hours later, I realized I had a maths test the next day! If (12) .............. I had lost my memory for a little bit longer!
By
highlighting absence in these lines from a poem, the technique that
is used to add emotional intensity is assonance. Assonance is the
repetition of similar vowel sound. The poem used was “O Captain! My
Captain”