Bay of Angels Flashcards

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What are the topics in Bay of Angels

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Friendship, Depression, Understanding, Individual Experience, Healing, Environment, Companionship

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Who wrote Bay of Angels

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Tim Winton

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“the ____ ____ peppermints” + technique

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Personification-“the big, sad peppermints”

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“full _____ _____ were ______” +technique

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Personification- “full bellied yachts were passing”

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Metaphor- “I sat by, in the _____ _____of ___” +technique

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Metaphor- “I sat by, in the world outside of him”

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I sat _____ of my friend and waited for him to ___ __ ___to me” +technique

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Repetition- (outside)- I sat outside of my friend and waited for him to tell it all to me”

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“I couldn’t see those _____ ___-_____ in him” +technique

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Electrical symbolism- “I couldn’t see those nerves blue-sparking in him”

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“thinking about it made my _____ _____ _____+technique

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Electrical symbolism- “thinking about it made my mouth taste electric” (electroconvulsive shock therapy for depression)

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“he said these ________helped him ___ _____”

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Metaphor + Euphemism- “he said these afternoons helped him stay afloat”

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“it was like ______ ______” (getting rid of it) +technique

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Simile- “it was like jettisoning cargo” (getting rid of it)

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“In all the photos we’re as ____ ___ ___ and she looks like that __ ___ ___ ____ _____” +technique

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Simile- “In all the photos we’re as brown as nuts and she looks like that old film star, Esther Williams”

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Personification- “Kings park ___ ____ above it”

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Personification- “Kings park sat green above it”

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“saw the old university, ___and_____in its ___ ___ ______” +technique

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Personification- “saw he old university, pretty and fatuous in its nest of foliage”

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“the ___ of _____ cans”

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Onomatopoeia- “the hiss of beer cans”

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“A gull _____ above the ____ like a _____ ____in a film”

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Simile- “A gull swung above the water like a cheap symbol in a film”

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“The ____ were like the ____ ___ _____” +technique

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Simile- “The sails were like the wings of angels”