H is for Hawk

Question 1

Q4 Plan

Answer 1

P1: good bird
P2: bad bird

Question 2

TAP

Answer 2

T: autobiography
A: wide/national & people interested in birds
P: to inform & entertain

Question 3

‘thump’, ‘box shook as if someone had punched it, hard’

Answer 3

tension, revelation at power & danger of bird
‘someone’ - personification
‘thump’ - onomatopoeia

Question 4

‘and…and talons and a high-pitched twittering and it’s all happening at once’

Answer 4

polysyndeton - fast pace, excitement
‘all’ reduced to ‘once’ - frantic

Question 5

‘great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury.’

Answer 5

metaphor of ‘great’, ‘flood’, ‘drenches’ - imagery of water - magnitudes, overwhelming
‘brilliance and fury’ - pathetic fallacy - admiration, god-like, power, awesomeness of bird

Question 6

‘My heart jumps sideways.’

Answer 6

short sentence - mirror heartbeat, abrupt
personification with ‘jumps’ - bodily reaction, complete shock & connection to hawk
present tense - suspense

Question 7

bird keeper

Answer 7

father figure & symbol of safety (reflecting on her dad’s death)

Question 8

‘her new neck wobbling with the effort of keeping her head in the air.’

Answer 8

cute imagery - author feels empathy
‘new’ - youth, innocence
‘wobbling’ - vulnerable, fragile contrast previous power & striking appearance

Question 9

P2:
‘alien brain fizzing and fusing with terror’

Answer 9

‘alien’ - foreign, distant, unfamiliar, not belonging
fricative alliteration of ‘fizzing and fusing’ - aggressive, unwanted

Question 10

‘smokier and darker and much bigger’

Answer 10

comparatives - preference for 1st hawk
polysyndeton with ‘and’ - list of things wrong with this bird
‘smokier’, ‘darker’ - contrasts brightness of previous hawk, connotes gloom

Question 11

‘some madness from a distant country’

Answer 11

‘madness’ - unnatural, crazy
‘country’ - international, extent of disconnection from bird

Question 12

‘This isn’t my hawk.’ & ‘But this isn’t my hawk.’

Answer 12

anaphora & short sentences - interrupting, constant thought, emotional

Question 13

ellipsis

Answer 13

n/a

Question 14

‘wind-wrecked hair and exhausted eyes was pleading’, ‘something behind it was very important.’

Answer 14

dishevelled - grief & desperation, self-awareness

Question 15

structure

Answer 15

short sentences - suspense
ellipsis & Q marks - awkwardness, discomfort, hesitation contrast awe

Question 16

comparative points

Answer 16

animals
deep emotional connection
admiration vs rejection
anticipation, tension