IN MRS TILSCHERS CLASS

Question 1

STANZA 1

Answer 1

• 2nd person pronoun
• Blue Nile= childish because “Blue”
• diction (tracing, chanted)= suggests childhood
• diction (skittle) places us in northern england and back in time
• personification (laugh of a bell)

Question 2

TITLE

Answer 2

• primary school (one teacher)
• sense of belonging
• takes us to specific event

Question 3

STRUCTURE

Answer 3

4 stanzas:

• first 2= 8 lines
• last 2= 7 lines
• past tense

Question 4

STANZA 2

Answer 4

• “better”=comparison
• “enthralling”—exciting, happy, curious tone—youthful,innocent
• “glowed like a sweetshop” simile
• juxtaposition
• “like the faint” simile
• “mistake”= child naivety, as if u could forget murders
• Caesura= adds certainty
• scent= diction
• list=slows down reader and allows us to focus on imagery/scent
• xylophone’s nonsense= personification

Question 5

STANZA 3

Answer 5

• metaphor for growing up
• synaesthesia
• freed= school is prison
• dunce= grown up and broken free from rules (so they ran from lunch queue) (rebellion)
• jumping and croaking= noise
• idea of sheep
• away from lunch queue= end of primary school
• judgement
• kick=violence=denial=reflex

Question 6

STANZA 4

Answer 6

• synaesthesia
• comparison of fever and electricity builds tension=power to be explosive
• tangible alarm=anxiety
• list= awkward, discomfort
• “sexy”=nonsensical use of adjective— new word, novelty, sibilance
• protection of innocence from Mrs Tilscher
• Mrs T. cannot take u past this point
• Caesura emphasised the betrayal/treachery
• final bit of journey, pathetic fallacy= thunderstorm reflects inner turmoil of transition from childhood into teenage years.

Question 7

themes

Answer 7

• joy
• nostalgia
• growing up
• melancholy
• innocence
• youth
• excitement
• curiosity
• discovery
• fear
• love
• passion
• powerful feelings
• memory