Belfast Confetti Flashcards
1
Q
What is Belfast Confetti about?
A
About Ciaran Carson and his perspective of a car bomb during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
2
Q
What are the rhetorical questions in the poem used to present ‘What is my name?’
A
Metaphorical interpretation question asked by the police and it shows his loss in identity.
3
Q
Why does Ciaran Carson use metaphorical punctuation?
A
To emphasise the impact of the bomb.
4
Q
What is the extended metaphor?
A
The extended metaphor is the punctuation he literally uses.
5
Q
What quote links to entrapment.
A
‘I know this labyrinth so well’
6
Q
What does the quote ‘I know this labyrinth so well’ show
A
It shows he is trapped in conflict literally and metaphorically.
