Hurricane Hits England - Grace Nichols Flashcards
1
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narrative opening
A
‘It took a hurricane, to bring her closer to the landscape’
2
Q
‘The howling ship of the wind’
A
- personification
- metaphor
3
Q
‘Its gathering rage’
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personification
4
Q
‘Talk to me’ x3
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- enjambment
- repetition of West African talking to her
5
Q
‘In new places?’
A
internal question
6
Q
‘The blinding illumination’
‘Into further darkness’
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- internal question
- contrast
- imagery of disorientation
ng realisation and electricity being cut off
7
Q
simile
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‘heavy as whales’
8
Q
‘crusted roots’
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- enjambment
- end of life reflecting on her experiences in London
9
Q
Single line stanza
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‘O why is my heart unchained?’
- rhetorical question
- sense of desperation
10
Q
‘I am’ x3
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- anaphora
-affirmations because she’s on a discovery leaded by her ancestors
11
Q
‘That the earth is the earth is the earth’
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- repetition
- cyclical structure
- the earth is all one place
