H is for hawk

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

An extract from Helen Macdonald’s book on experience with grief and the use of falconry to battle it
- about her meeting her hawk for first time
- hawk represents feelings of being out of control

Question 2

Message

Answer 2

The purpose of the extract is to share the way she started her journey to deal with grief

Question 3

overall structure

Answer 3

• chronological
• tension building
• line 46 turning
• short sentences
• asyndetic listing
• contrast

Question 4

contrast

Answer 4

between reaction to first bird is a thing of beauty a tresure from second bird who is described as the ‘wrong bird’ and paired with negative connotations

1st bird- ‘like gold falling through water’
2nd bird ‘ she wailed;great ,awful gouts of a sound’

Question 5

Line 46

Answer 5

turning point - she doesnt want the bird she was supposed to have she wants the first one. no longer positive or optimistic.

‘it was the wrong bird.”

Question 6

‘It was the wrong bird.’

Answer 6

short sentences to represent dissapointment

Question 7

‘Another hinge untied.concentration.’

Answer 7

Short sentences at the beginning to build tension

Question 8

‘a sudden thump’

Answer 8

onomatepia. builds tension

Question 9

repetition

Answer 9

‘enormus, enourmus hawk’

emphasizes size and awe

Question 10

1st bird

Answer 10

positive language
- majority of time spent on

Question 11

2nd bird

Answer 11

• negative language
• much less time spent

Question 12

Themes

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• anticipation
• hope
• nature

Question 13

‘like gold falling through water’

Answer 13

meataphor that shows awe and fear

Question 14

Lang features

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• onomatopoeia
• repetition
• pathetic fallacy
• alliteration
  -divine imagery

Question 15

Pathetic fallacy

Answer 15

‘great flood of sunlight drenches us’

shows moment of great clarity

Question 16

Alliteration

Answer 16

‘barred and beating’
shows the violence of the hawk

‘chaotic clatter’
tension

Question 17

foreshadowing

Answer 17

“Don’t want you going home with the wrong bird”

Builds tension

Question 18

Gradual reveal

Answer 18

Long sentences. builds tension as neither the reader or the writer knows whats to come.
“squinted into the dark interior”

Question 19

abstract nouns

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“concentration” and “caution”

To convey how delicate the situation is

Question 20

“Last few seconds before battle”

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metaphor. suggests that their may be conflict

Question 21

“whirring, chaotic clatter of wings”

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The uses of listing and onomtopiea serves to show the chaos and possible danger

Question 22

change in tense

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“its all happening at once” indicates the speed at which everything is going on and gives the reader a sense of urgency

Question 23

“My heart jumps sideways”

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shows the writers apprehension

Question 24

tone in fourth paragraph

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shows the mans calm proffesionalism in contrast to the desperatio of the woman

Question 25

repetition of “this isn’t my hawk”

Answer 25

emphasises the writers disbelief and dread and conviction about the first bird

Question 26

questions at the end

Answer 26

conveys writer’s desperation to have the first bird

Question 27

end of text

Answer 27

“There was a moment of total silence”

cliff hanger reader is left to ponder the outcome