Digging Flashcards
Poet
Seamus Heaney
Themes
Rural life, traditions, memories, career, choice, family, childhood
Poetic techniques
Repetition
Smilie
Image
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Colloquial language
Sensory language
Metaphor
Repetition- Quote
“my finger and my thumb”
“Down and Down”
“My father, digging”, “For the good turf, digging”
Simile- Quote
“Snug as a gun”
“I’ve no spade to follow men like them”
Image- Quote
“Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds bends low, comes up twenty years away”
“The course boot nestled on the lug”
Onomatopoeia- Quote
“Squelch and slap of soggy peat”
Alliteration- Quote
“The spade sinks into gravelly ground”
“Tall tops buried the bright edge”
“Curt cuts of an edge”
colloquial language - quote
“By God”
Sensory language - Quote
“The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap of soggy peat”
Metaphor - Quote
“The squat pen rests, I’ll dig with it
