Basking Shark Flashcards
“On a rock where none should be”
Metaphor
Comparing shark to a rock
Bulky and without feelings
Stereotyping and jumping to conclusions
“With as a slounge”
Onomatopoeia
Noise of waves
Clumsy movement linking back to “bulky”
“Once(too often)”
Parenthesis
Although frightened speaker tries to add humour and says that the one experience was more than enough
“Sea tin racked with rain”
Alliteration and visual and aural imagery
We can hear/see he rain on the sea
Experience
“Roomsized monster with a matchbox brain”
Metaphor
Clever use of vowels
Long and elongated vowels in “roomsozed monster” contrast well with short clipped vowels of matchbox brain
“He shoggled me”
Onomatopoeic
Is self depreciating to speaker
Shark has control
“So who’s the monster”
Rhetorical question
Poet is filled with new doubt over who the superior being is
