Hide and seek Flashcards
Call out. Call loud
Repetition, imperative verb- places reader straight into the action. The speaker trying to advise the subject
Come and find me!
Exclamatory, enthusiastic and excitement
Smells like the seaside
Simile, sibilance, sensory imagery- ironic with happpy connotations, enables reader to imagine its them and inviting them to step into boys shoes increasingl empathy
Your feet aren’t sticking out
Not to rust
Cautioning the boy , speaker has more mature perspective of world.
The floor is cold.
Negative adjective, lack of emotion from group of boys- Caesura emphasises change in mood
Prowling in.
Builds tension
Don’t breathe. Don’t move. Stay dumb.
Imperative verbs
Hide in your blindness
Metaphor boy is blind to unkindness and world.
Scuffle
Connotates a fight and hostile atmosphere.
They must think your very clever
Irony the boys ignorant of their intentions.
Dark damp
Alliteration, depressing mood
Your the winner
Naivety, boy thinks he’s won the game and doesn’t realise his friends have deserted him.
I’ve won !
Exclamation shows excitement
The darkening garden watches
Personified, ominous and suspense
The darkening garden watches.
Caesura creates an ominous suspenseful atmosphere slows pace reader is waiting for boy to realise
The bushes hold their breath
Personification suspenseful and ominous
The bushes hold their breath; the sun is gone.
Between 2 end stop lines, boy starts to question friends behaviour, sympathy from reader
Sun
Symbolises hope and how hope is lost and he doesn’t think he’s won game instead realises cruelty
Yes, here you are.
Caesura short sentences build tension.
Where are they who sought u?
Rhetorical question, boys confused cold is threatened and hostile , contrast of u and they emphasises the adversaries not true friends
