belfast confetti

Question 1

give examples of rhetorical questions showing entrapment

Answer 1

“what is my name?”
“why can’t i escape?”
“where am i coming from?”
“where am i going?”

Question 2

how is mental suffering presented in the poem

Answer 2

“i was trying to complete a sentence in my head but it kept suffering”
“what is my name?”
“why can’t i escape?”

Question 3

the use of punctuation through out the poem to describe the debris of the explosion is called

Answer 3

an extended metaphor

Question 4

give an example of a semantic field of civil conflict

Answer 4

“riot squad”

Question 5

give an example of an oxymoron in one of the stanzas showing how conflict has altered belfast

Answer 5

“i know this labyrinth so well- balaclava, raglan, inkerman, odessa street”