What kind of effects does the language achieve in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Medallion’? The ‘Medallion’ is about a dead snake that appears, by the description, at first, to be alive. ‘The bronze snake lay in the sun’, this portrays the picture of a beautiful creature basking in the sun. ‘Inert as a shoelace’ tells us that the snake is lifeless as well as motionless, and also that the snake is very small. ‘Dead but pliable still’, this is when we are actually told that the snake is dead, but only recently killed/died as it’s joints can still be moved – ‘pliable still’.
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