HIDE AND SEEK Flashcards
‘call out. call out: ‘I’m ready! Come and find me!’’
- Repetition
- Short sentences
- Show excitement that soon changes into darkness/loneliness/scaredness
‘smell like the seaside’
- Sibilance and simile
- Positive childhood imagery
‘be careful that your feet aren’t sticking out’
- Suggestion of danger
- Monsters
- Connotations of scared child hiding under covers
‘prowling’
- Predators prowl hunting him
- Zoomorphism
- Negative frightful connotations
‘them sound so hushed’
- Sibilance
- Shows whispering
What happens to the tone?
- volta -> Changes from excited to scared
‘in this salty dark’
- Sensory language
- Negative synesthesia
‘don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dumb.’
Tricolon short sentences with imperatives
Didactic language
Adds to intimidation
‘out… to risk another shout’
Rhyme is showing tone shift
Connotations of menace and tension
Risk suggest danger
‘the floor is cold.’
Hard caesura
Short sentence
Sensory language
Changes pattern and flow which creates tension
‘the cold bites’
Predator connotations
Danger
Zoomorphism
‘but where are they who sought you?’
Conjunction
Shows confusion of the child
Mixture of voice of child and second unknown person
‘I’ve won!’
Excitement
He is being naive
What is the meter/rhyme?
Free verse
What does the free verse show?
Child’s imagination
