H is for Hawk Flashcards
Helen Macdonald
1
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goshawk
A
- predatory animal
- force of nature
2
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door of thin plywood and hinges carefully tied string
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- delicate image
3
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dark interior
A
- contrast
- captivity
4
Q
box shook as if someone had punched it
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- similie
- showcases hawks strength
5
Q
light leather
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- freedome
- alliteration
6
Q
fearful sights
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- grief and suffering
7
Q
like us
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- short sentencet
8
Q
the air turned syrupy, slow fleck with dust
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- beauty of nature
- nervous excitment dread
- metaphor - triplet
9
Q
enormous, enormous
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- repeptition
10
Q
great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury
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- wonderous
- hyperbole
- juxtaposition
- beauty of nature
- metaphor
11
Q
the sharp fingers of her dark tipped primaries cutting the air
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- contrast
- sharp dark - vivid imagery
12
Q
my heart jumps sideways
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- personification
13
Q
conjuring trick
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- 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
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- simile
- ethereal language
- beauty of nature
- delicacy
16
Q
light splashed feathers
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- simile
- ethereal language
- delicacy
- beauty of nature
17
Q
wings open
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- beauty of nature
- angelic
- similar to ange;
18
Q
like a turkey in a butchers shop
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- simile
- symbol of death
- juxtaposition
19
Q
the sun spreads on dust and water
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- symbol of new life
20
Q
folding her wings
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- beauty of nature
- fragile
- vulnerability
21
Q
had broken from a frail bluish eggshell
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- fragility + strength
22
Q
whole world had fallen into them at once
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- metaphor
- bird experiencing everything in one go
23
Q
this is my hawk
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- unsure second guessing
24
Q
slow panic
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- oxymoron
- fear
25
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key themes/ ideas
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- companionship/ lonliness
- nature- relationship to animals
- grief suffering
- freedom/ captivity
- communication
