First Death In Nova Scotia

Question 1

Example of pathetic fallacy

Answer 1

• In the cold, cold parlor

Question 2

Examples of images of cold, stillness and white

Answer 2

• In the cold, cold parlor
• on his white, frozen lake,
• His breast was deep and white, / cold and caressable
• one lily of the valley
• a little frosted cake,
• from his white, frozen lake
• He was all white, like a doll that hadn’t been painted yet

Question 3

Quotes showing the child doesn’t fully understand death

Answer 3

• Since Unle Arthur fired/a bullet into him, / he hadn’t said a word.
• the red-eyed loon eyed it
• Jack Frost had started to paint him/the way he always painted/the Maple Leaf (Forever)

Question 4

Quote brutally describing the stuffed loon

Answer 4

Since Unle Arthur fired a bullet into him, he hadn’t said a word

Question 5

The child’s metaphor for the table

Answer 5

White, frozen lake

Question 6

Examples of childlike imagery

Answer 6

• a little frosted cake
• He was all white, like a doll/that hadn’t been painted yet

Question 7

Simile comparing Arthur to a doll

Answer 7

He was all white, like a doll that hadn’t been painted yet.

Question 8

Quote showing she is starting to understand the finality of death

Answer 8

Jack Frost had dropped the brush and left him white forever.

Question 9

Quote showing contrast between white and stillness of surroundings and the vivid paintings on the walls

Answer 9

gracious royal couples/were warm in red and ermine

Question 10

Quote showing the story her childish imagination has conjured up

Answer 10

They invited Arthur to be the smallest page at court.

Question 11

Final moment of awareness

Answer 11

But how could Arthur go,/ clutching his tiny lily,/ with his eyes shut up so tight/and the roads deep in snow

Question 12

Images that show the speaker is a child

Answer 12

• Since Uncle Arthur fired a bullet into him, he hadn’t said a word
• I was lifted up and given one lily of the valley to put in Arthur’s hand
• Arthur’s coffin was a little frosted cake, and the red eyed loon eyed it

Question 13

Examples of the child avoiding Arthur

Answer 13

• beneath the chromographs
• red-eyed loon

Question 14

Examples of imagery

Answer 14

• white, frozen lake
• a little frosted cake
• Jack Frost had started to paint him/the way he always painted/the Maple Leaf (Forever)
• But how could Arthur go, / clutching his tiny lily, / with his eyes shut up so tight / and the roads deep in snow

Question 15

Examples of metaphors and similes

Answer 15

• Arthur’s coffin was a little frosted cake
• all white, like a doll that hadn’t been painted yet

Question 17

Example of clarification

Answer 17

shot and stuffed by Uncle Arthur, Arthur’s father

Question 18

Examples of Bishop’s use of colour

Answer 18

• white, frozen, lake,
• His breast was deep and white
• He was all white, like a doll
• Jack Frost had dropped the brush/and left him white, forever.
• The gracious royal couples/were warm in red and ermine
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