I didn’t expect to see any imperatives either, as they can
come across bossy and the audience may react badly to them. However the
descriptions from the 1900s all repeat the imperative ‘Think… Oxford bags and
Bay City Rollers’ The stative verb and added ellipsis gets the reader to take
in the imperative and pause to imagine this certain time period and what was
going on at this particular time. The imperative cleverly puts the garment into
context while getting the reader to imagine themselves in this certain time
period.
Good use of terms to mine the quote. Anaphora? Try for a more formal register e.g. speak in the third person and avoid slang and colloquial terms like "bossy" - how can you evaluate the significance of the imperative in the anaphora in your point?
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