H IS FOR HAWK

Question 1

‘we’ll check the ring numbers against the Article 10s’

Answer 1

Structurally starts with technical language and ordinary speech
Low tension so can build
Gains credibility

Question 2

‘don’t want you going home with the wrong bird’

Answer 2

Irony
Fore-shadowing

Question 3

‘another hinge untied. Concentration. Infinite caution’

Answer 3

In complete sentences

Question 4

‘scratching talons, another thump’

Answer 4

Onomatopoeia
Italics
Present tense immediate
Builds tension

Question 5

‘air turned syrupy, slow, flecked with dust’

Answer 5

Time is moving slow
Shows heightened tension

Question 6

‘last few seconds before battle’

Answer 6

Emotion
Simile
Connotations

Question 7

‘chaotic clatter’

Answer 7

Harsh alliteration

Question 8

‘the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box and in a strange coincidence… a great flood of sunlight drenches’

Answer 8

Listing and long sentence
Semantic field of water

Question 9

‘like gold falling through water… a broken marionette’

Answer 9

Contrast between positive and negative descriptions
Shows confusion and overwhelmed

Question 10

‘her feathers raised… two enormous eyes’

Answer 10

Describing aspects
Whole is too confusing

Question 11

‘and she can see everything;’

Answer 11

Reflects birds emotions
Confusion
Listing
Vulnerable
Bird is like her dealing with shock

Question 12

‘a broken marionette’

Answer 12

Dangerous but fragile
Broken
Pathos

Question 13

‘the whole world had fallen into them at once’

Answer 13

Metaphor
Hyperbole
Expresses panic

Question 14

Ideas?

Answer 14

Shared anxiety between bird and author
Joined together through emotion

Question 15

‘thin, angular skull’

Answer 15

Gives sense of vulnerability and danger

Question 16

‘it was the wrong bird’

Answer 16

Short sentence
Shows disappointment

Question 17

‘this was the younger one. the smaller one’

Answer 17

Contrast language
Emphasises disappointment further

Question 18

‘Oh.’

Answer 18

One word paragraph
Vocalising interior monologue
Shows disappointment
Contrast in reaction to both birds

Question 19

‘she was smokier’

Answer 19

Contaminates air
Difficult to trap
Dark/black/drama

Question 20

‘this isn’t my hawk. The hood was on…’

Answer 20

Internal monolgue blended with actions
Shows panic

Question 21

‘crazy… madness’

Answer 21

No connection or communication
Contrast
Repetition of idea of mad

Question 22

‘there was a moment of total silence.’

Answer 22

Short sentence
Cliffhanger
Builds tension

Question 23

Form?

Answer 23

Memoir

Question 24

Themes

Answer 24

Anticipation
Fear
Hope
Panic