Climbing My Grandfather

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Journey 
Challenge
Proud possession mould she 
Love
Wise
Kindness
Desire to succeed 
Present tense
Exploration / risk

Question 2

Language

Answer 2

Extended Met of mountain
‘Up over/ the forehead, the wrinkles well spaced and easy
‘To his thick hair (soft and white at this altitude), reaching for the summit
‘scramble’ free, screed cheek
Simile
‘The skin of his fingers smooth and thick/ like warm ice’

Question 3

Structure

Answer 3

Enjambment and sentence punctuation suggests breaks and pauses in the climb
‘Knowing/ the slow pulse of his good heart’
‘Then pull/ myself up the loose skin of his neck’

Question 4

Form

Answer 4

One single extended verse regular rhyme length and unrhymed suggesting one fluent climb
Free verse like free climb
Each line takes reader higher
Enjambment change direction of readers eyes and child changes direction