Digging Flashcards

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Poet

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Seamus Heaney

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Themes

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Rural life, traditions, memories, career, choice, family, childhood

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Poetic techniques

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Repetition
Smilie
Image
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Colloquial language
Sensory language
Metaphor

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Repetition- Quote

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“my finger and my thumb”
“Down and Down”
“My father, digging”, “For the good turf, digging”

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Simile- Quote

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“Snug as a gun”
“I’ve no spade to follow men like them”

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Image- Quote

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“Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds bends low, comes up twenty years away”
“The course boot nestled on the lug”

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Onomatopoeia- Quote

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“Squelch and slap of soggy peat”

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Alliteration- Quote

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“The spade sinks into gravelly ground”
“Tall tops buried the bright edge”
“Curt cuts of an edge”

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colloquial language - quote

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“By God”

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Sensory language - Quote

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“The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap of soggy peat”

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Metaphor - Quote

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“The squat pen rests, I’ll dig with it

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