Kamikaze Flashcards
“He must have looked far down / at the little fishing boats / string out like bunting”. What language techniques does this use?
Simile- Power of nature changes his mind.
Irony- He should have been aiming at the ships rather than looking at the small fishing boats.
“the dark shoals of fishes / flashing silver as their bellies / swivelled towards the sun”. What language techniques does this use?
Sibilance- Resembles the smooth movement of the fish in the ocean below him.
What does the use of a full stop at the end of stanza 5 in line 30 represent?
It can tell us that it’s the end of the flight.
“they treated him / as though he no longer existed”. What language technique does this use?
Irony- he survived the flight but was now treated as if he was dead anyways.
“till gradually we too learned / to be silent, to live as though / he had never returned, that this / was no longer the father we loved”. What could this phrase tell us?
The children have been taught to shun him. Last 2 lines could comment on the destructiveness of patriotism.
