Basking shark Flashcards
“To stub an oar on a rock where none should be
To have it slounge out of the sea”
Techniques- repetition
Evaluation- it makes the reader want to keep reading as it’s obvious not a rock he hit.
“On a sea tin-tacked with rain”
Techniques- plosives sound, onomatopoeia and alliteration
Evaluation- it gives the reader the impression of how still and quiet the sea is
“The room sized monster with a match box brain”
Techniques- metaphor
Evaluation- it makes the reader think about how the animal is huge but not very clever.
“He displaced more then water”
Techniques- caesura
Evaluation- this makes the reader think how the plot has trauma from this experience
“He shoggled me centuries back”
Techniques- onomatopoeia and metaphor
Evaluation- this tells the reader that the animal didn’t just shake the boat but also Maccaigs mind.
“This decadent townee shook on a wrong branch of his family tree”
Techniques- metaphor
Evaluation- this makes the reader contemplate what is going on
“Emerging from the slime of everything”
Techniques- metaphor
Evaluation- this shows the reader how we all came from the same place at some point and refers back to the bigger picture of evolution
“So who’s the monster”
Techniques- rhetorical question
Evaluation- makes the reader think about how humans are more of a threat to the basking shark then it is to us.
