Death of a Naturalist - Stanza 1 Flashcards
1
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flax-dam festered
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- alliteration draws attention to main idea
- flax dam is a metaphor for the speaker’s innocence
2
Q
punishing sun
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- unpleasant word choice
- shows child’s enjoyment and innocence - he is shielded and protected
- personification
3
Q
huge sods
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- long vowel sounds
- slow sentence makes reader stop and watch like the child
4
Q
strong gauze of sound around the smell
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- sibilance mimics sound of nature
5
Q
but best of all was the warm thick slobber
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- superlative shows it is his favourite part
- frogspawn is a metaphor for his youth and angry frogs are adolescence
- unpleasant word choice of slobber
6
Q
fill jampotfuls of the jellied specks
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- alliteration can highlight the delight
- specks symbolise new beginnings and birth
- speaker is leaving youth
7
Q
on shelves at school, and wait and watch until
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- iambic pentameter
- speaker impatient
8
Q
miss walls would tell us
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- vivid memory
- left a mark on the speaker
9
Q
fattening dots burst
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- onomatopoeia
- experiencing nature first hand
10
Q
daddy frog, mammy frog
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- colloquial
- speaker is naïve and protected
11
Q
and how he croaked and how the mammy frog
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- childlike story telling
- croak references voice breaking
12
Q
laid hundreds of little eggs and this was/ Frogspawn
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- enjambment and caesura work together to make us stop in awe like the speaker
- capital letter highlights importance of the lesson
- foreshadows loss of innocence
13
Q
In rain
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- meter change
- enjambment
- pathetic fallacy
- foreshadowing
combine to highlight server change in mood the poem
