H is for Hawk Flashcards
Helen Macdonald
1
Q
goshawk
A
- predatory animal
- force of nature
2
Q
door of thin plywood and hinges carefully tied string
A
- delicate image
3
Q
dark interior
A
- contrast
- captivity
4
Q
box shook as if someone had punched it
A
- similie
- showcases hawks strength
5
Q
light leather
A
- freedome
- alliteration
6
Q
fearful sights
A
- grief and suffering
7
Q
like us
A
- short sentencet
8
Q
the air turned syrupy, slow fleck with dust
A
- beauty of nature
- nervous excitment dread
- metaphor - triplet
9
Q
enormous, enormous
A
- repeptition
10
Q
great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury
A
- wonderous
- hyperbole
- juxtaposition
- beauty of nature
- metaphor
11
Q
the sharp fingers of her dark tipped primaries cutting the air
A
- contrast
- sharp dark - vivid imagery
12
Q
my heart jumps sideways
A
- personification
13
Q
conjuring trick
A
- trick where something is made to disappear
14
Q
a fallen angel. a griffon
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- juxtaposition
- ethereal
- beauty + power
- mythological creatures
15
Q
like gold falling through water
A
- simile
- ethereal language
- beauty of nature
- delicacy
