Bishop

Question 1

in the waiting room rhetorical question- very deep philosophical question that acts as the catalyst for Bishop’s transformation

Answer 1

“Why should my aunt, /or me, or anyone?”

Question 2

in the waiting room historical allusion, tells us about the time and makes it relatable to some readers

Answer 2

“Osa and Martin Johnson”

Question 3

in the waiting room use of conciseness that reflects her age

Answer 3

“I might have been embarrassed but wasn’t”

Question 4

in the waiting room use of repetition that reflects her panic attack from the feeling of overwhelm due to the magnitude of what she has realised

Answer 4

“I- we- were falling, falling”

Question 5

in the waiting room metaphor that compares her panic attack to a big black wave

Answer 5

“I was sliding beneath a big black wave”

Question 6

in the waiting room simile that domesticates the image to make it easier to process

Answer 6

“like the necks of light bulbs”

Question 7

in the waiting room imagery

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“the inside of a volcano/ black, and full of ashes;/ then it was spilling over in rivulets of fire”

Question 8

in the waiting room alliteration that helps to convey the child’s sense of panic and drowning. signifies how how overwhelmed and emotional she is

Answer 8

“It was sliding/ beneath a big, black wave”

Question 9

the fish use of colour, orange, bright

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“rusted engine/ rusted orange/ sun-cracked thwarts”

Question 10

the fish colour symbolises her epiphany

Answer 10

“rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!”

Question 11

the fish repetition in a euphoric way to illustrate the speakers moment of epiphany

Answer 11

“until everything/ was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!”

Question 12

the fish conciseness that conveys the fish’s resignation to his fate. he has absolutely no fight left in him

Answer 12

“he didn’t fight./ he hadn’t fought at all!”

Question 13

the fish simile to show how she sees the hooks like a badge of honour and a record of achievements

Answer 13

“like medals with their ribbons/ frayed and wavering”

Question 14

the fish broad vowel assonance that slows down the poem and focuses the readers attention

Answer 14

“which were far larger/ shallower and yellowed/ backed and packed”

Question 15

the fish simile that describes the fish’s skin and age

Answer 15

“his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper”

Question 16

filling station alliteration that emphasises that it is a small family-run filling station. sing song alliteration adds a mocking tone to this point

Answer 16

“family filling station”

Question 17

filling station sibilance that is used to suggest oiliness and greasiness in a very effective way

Answer 17

“several quick and saucy/ and greasy sons assist him”

Question 18

filling station sibilance that sounds like a gentle whisper, suggests the person who arranged the oil cans in this careful way is also gentle

Answer 18

“ESSO-SO-SO-SO”

Question 19

filling station personification

Answer 19

“to high strung automobiles”

Question 20

filling station conciseness a very brief but profound statement that every single person is loved

Answer 20

“somebody loves us all”

Question 21

filling station repetition/ anaphora that emphasises that somebody is there

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“somebody embroidered/ somebody waters/ somebody arranges”

Question 22

filling station repetition that emphasises how dirty and oily the filling station is

Answer 22

“oil-soaked/ oil-permeated”

Question 23

filling station rhetorical question that force her to reconsider her initial impression of the family who runs the filling station

Answer 23

” why the extraneous plant? “

Question 24

questions of travel colour that welcomes the sun and shows the value of a quiet moment

Answer 24

“a sudden golden silence”

Question 25

questions of travel simile/ personification that helps us picture gently swaying trees covered in pink blossum

Answer 25

“gesturing/ like noble pantomimists, robed in pink”

Question 26

questions of travel metaphor to compare the rivers and waterfalls to tearstains. tells us that she is no longer happy in Brazil. forms and image of channels of water

Answer 26

“mile long, shiny tearstains”

Question 27

questions of travel sibilance that shows how overwhelmed the speaker is feeling by this tropical landscape and how oppressive all this water is to her

Answer 27

“the pressure of so many clouds on the mountaintops/ makes them spill over the sides in soft slow-motion,/ turning to waterfalls under our very eyes”

Question 28

questions of travel rhetorical question that questions whether travel is ethical and consider the social and cultural repercussions of travel

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“is it right to be watching strangers in a play/ in the strangest of theaters?”

Question 29

questions of travel defamiliarisation- unusual to compare mountain peaks in the sky to the hulls of shipwrecks but it is effective

Answer 29

“the mountains look like the hulls of capsized ships,/ slime hung and barnacled”

Question 30

questions of travel simile

Answer 30

“rain so much like politicians speeches”

Question 31

questions of travel onomatopoeia- combination of alliteration and onomatopoeia so that we can hear the sounds that the clogs make on the floor

Answer 31

“clogs/ carelessly clacking”

Question 32

questions of travel italics- bishop contemplates the idea that complete freedom is an illusion, and also admits that it often the desire to belong that, paradoxically, informs our desire for travel

Answer 32

“continent, city, country, society;/ the choice is never wide and never free./ and here, or there.. No we should have stayed at home,/ wherever that may be?”

Question 33

the prodigal biblical allusion in “the prodigal” means

Answer 33

re-telling of the parable of the prodigal son. related it to both her own alcoholism and addiction that ran through her family

Question 34

the prodigal colour

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” the sunrise glazed the barnyard mud with red; burning puddles seemed to reassure”

Question 35

the prodigal personification

Answer 35

“but evenings first star came to warn”

Question 36

the prodigal connotation that conveys the prodigals son sensed displacement and loneliness at self-imposed exile

Answer 36

“exile”

Question 37

the prodigal metaphor that compares the lantern to angels halo to help form an image and colour

Answer 37

“the lantern, like the sun, going away- laid on the mud a pacing aureole”

Question 38

the prodigal connotation (also in Qs of travel) to connote a sense of belonging and content rather than an actual house

Answer 38

“home”

Question 39

the prodigal biblical allusion comparing the setting sun to an angels halo

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” a pacing aureole”

Question 40

the prodigal biblical allusion that references Noahs ark and suggests safety and escape

Answer 40

“to shut the cows and horses in the barn,… safe and cmpanionable as in the ark”