In Mrs Tilscher Class Flashcards

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Travel up the blue Nile

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Metaphor which compares the journey of growing up with the long adventure travelling along the Nile - shows ability of teacher to take pupils on a journey in the classroom through her ability as a teacher.

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Inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks

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Metaphor: Ink and commas are both things familiar in the classroom. Duffy is also referring to metamorphoses from childhood to adolescence. Links to the idea of change and growth.

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Feverish July

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Word choice suggests emerging sexuality, passage of time clear through the poem and now the poet is on the cusp of adolescence.

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Impatient to be grown

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Parenthesis provides additional information explaining the writer’s emotions as they run from school - they are desperate for adulthood, and are running away from the comfort and safety of the classroom and childhood.

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Sky split open into a thunderstorm

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Pathetic fallacy reflects the idea of breaking away from childhood in the way the sky seems to break into a thunderstorm. Just as lightning breaks across the sky and clouds burst with rain so too are the young people breaking away from the classroom and childhood, bursting into adulthood and puberty.

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The air tasted of electricity

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Use of sensual imagery: end of school year is approaching, imminent storm conveys dual sense of excitement and danger associated with self discovery and the emerging adolescence

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