H is for Hawk Flashcards
‘the box shook as if someone had punched it, hard, from within’
-Simile - the bird is very strong
-‘hard’ is isolated, indicates she’s scared of the bird
‘light, leather hood’
‘l’ alliteration - spoken like a lullaby, trying to keep bird from panicking.
‘thump’
onomatopoeia
‘Another hinge untied. Concentration. Infinite caution. Daylight irrigating the box…’ etc
Series of short sentences - tension building to reveal of bird
‘syrupy, slow’
sibilance - feels as if she’s suffocating
‘enormous, enormous’
-italics, hyperbole
-in a long sentence - overwhelmed
-repetition - shock
‘barred and beating’
‘b’ alliteration - can almost hear wings
‘primaries’
jargon (specific language) - she is not a beginner and understands what she is talking about
‘She is a conjuring trick. A reptile. A fallen angel.’
-breaks down into shorter sentences so she can comprehend bird.
-metaphor - bird compared to a magical creature, the hawk isn’t what she expected.
‘Her world was an aviary no larger than a living room. Then it was a box.’
-Feels bad for the bird
-Shows how limited its world was
‘everything’ (in italics), proceeds with a list
-bird’s innocence is being lost
-shows how amazing bird’s eyesight is and how much the bird loves freedom’
‘the man was perfectly calm’
contrast as to how her and the bird were feeling
‘This hawk had been hatched…effort of keeping her head in the air’
-imagery
‘the world had fallen into them at once’
-metaphor/imagery
-shows how the bird’s eyes reacted, as if she saw the whole world all at once
‘fizzing and fusing’
alliteration - draws attention to how on edge the bird is.
‘Oh.’
-writer is shocked and disappointed.
-exclamatory word
‘dear God’
-profanity, emotive language
-shows how much she doesn’t feel it is hers
‘She came out like a Victorian melodrama; a sort of madwoman in the attack’
simile - writer is experiencing intense and frightening emotions, creates vivid picture is reader’s mind of a bird who wants to hurt others
‘this isn’t my hawk’
repetition - emphasis on how strongly she feels, sense of panic
‘white-faced woman with wind-wrecked hair’
alliteration - restlessness like wind
‘crazy barrage of incoherent appeals’
metaphor/emotive language - she feels so strongly about this that she feels as if she’s appealing in court
‘There was a moment of total silence.’
short sentence/cliffhanger - builds up tension and anticipation
