Last Supper Flashcards
Giving up the boyfriend for good
“She Is getting good and ready to renounce / his sweet flesh./ not just for lent. (For/ever)
Links with the last supper of Jesus
“Last treat”
The boyfriend not being faithful
“betrayal with a kiss”
Pun to show boyfriend’s chances are over
“Cooked goose”
Biblical reference of judas getting silver for his betrayal
“Silverware”
Word choice to show anger
“She is tearing foliage, scrambling/ the salad
Pun to show the speaker has to face the consequences for her poor judgement
“The table she made (and oh yes will have to lie on)”
Food analogy to show the speaker is moving on
“The something substantial, something extra/ tasty if not elegant”
Speaker thinks about being with her friends once she ends the relationship
Powhatan kind of leftover hash she’d make of it among friends”
Her friends are important to her
“The girls when these three met again
Idea of witches and alliteration focuses his flaws
“Yes there they’d be, crackling around the cauldron,/ spitting out the gristlier bits/ of his giblets
Alliteration shows the speaker dwelling on the relationship
“Gnawing on the knuckle one of some/ intricate irony”
Speaker has moral high ground over ex boyfriend
“They’d sink back/ gorged on truth / and their own savage integrity”
Girls are pompous over the ex
“sleek on it all, preening/ like corbies”
Alliteration shows she is judging the ex
“Getting grave and dainty at the/ petit-gout mouthful of reported speech”
