H is for Hawk Flashcards
1
Q
‘Don’t want you going home with the wrong bird’
A
- cyclical structure
- ironic because that’s exactly what happens
2
Q
tension being built up
A
- ‘A sudden thump’
- ‘she’s got her hood of’
- ‘frowned’
3
Q
juxtaposition
A
‘brilliance and fury’
4
Q
repetition
A
‘enormous, enormous hawk’
5
Q
simile
A
‘like gold falling through water’
‘like a Victorian melodrama’
6
Q
‘One, two, three.’
A
- counting with reader
- bringing reader into the experience
7
Q
sensory imagery
A
‘angular skull’
8
Q
‘It was the wrong bird.’
A
- tone changes again’
- ‘short sentence’
9
Q
‘Oh.’
A
short paragraph emphasises her shock and disappointment
10
Q
negative lexical field
A
- madwoman
- unbearable
- she wailed
- panic
- crazy
- madness
- monstrous
11
Q
aural imagery
A
‘she wailed’
