Little Red Cap Flashcards

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1
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Author of Little Red Cap

A

Carol Ann Duffy

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“that a greying wolf howls the same__________

A

same old song at the moon.”

metaphor

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3
Q

“But then I was young -
and it took ten years in the woods to tell that___________

A

a mushroom stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse”

metaphor

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“till you came at last to________

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the edge of the woods”

allegory (extended metaphor)
symbolism [the woods]

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5
Q

“I lost both shoes______

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but got there, wolf’s lair, better beware”

enjambment
rhyme

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6
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“I clung till________

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dawn to his thrashing fur”

adjective

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7
Q

“Then I slid from between______

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his heavy matted paws and went in search of a living bird-white dove”

symbolism
adjective

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8
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“… sweet sixteen, never been, babe, waif, and______

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bought me a drink,
my first”

enjambment
rhyme

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9
Q

“I took an axe ______

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to a willow to see how it wept.
I took an axe to a salmon to see how it leapt…”

parallel structure
repetition
metaphor

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10
Q

“Here’s why. _____

A

Poetry.”

short sentence

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“away from home to a ________

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dark, tangled, thorny place”

adjectives
metaphor [leaving adolescence]

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