MacCaig- basking shark

Question 1

What are the techniques used in the first line.

“To stub an oar on a rock” and what do they show

Answer 1

Metaphor as he didn’t actually stub his oar on a rock he stubbed it on a basking shark. onomatopoeia as the word stub sounds like the noise it makes when you would stub a oar on a rock.

Question 2

What is ‘slounge’ an example of?

Answer 2

Slounge is and example of a neologism (newly created word)

Question 3

analyse “to rise with a slounge”

Answer 3

Slounge is an example of onomatopoeia and is a combination of the words slouch and lounge. The word ‘slounge’ is also an example of neologism (newly created word) ‘slounge’ is that it lasts for a long time.

Question 4

What is a tin tack referee to

Answer 4

Small rain drops on flat calm water

Question 5

What is roomsized trying to emphasising

Answer 5

The mass of the basking shark

Question 6

What tech nique is used in the word “shoggled”

Answer 6

Onomatopoeia

In the full quote “he shoggled me back” he uses shoggled as a metaphor by him thinking he is mentally shaken

Question 7

Analyse “shook on a wrong branch of his family tree”

Answer 7

The writer uses this enjambment making you understand what he’s thinking about with the origin. This is also an example of onomatopoeia for ‘shook’.

Question 8

Analyse “emerging from the slime of everything”

Answer 8

I think the poet is trying to create the image of the origins of human life/evolution and linked to the idea of a pond setting (algae).

Question 9

What technique is used in the quote “who is the monster”

Answer 9

Rhetorical question to make the reader stop and think about what humanity has done to wildlife.

Question 10

What’s the parenthesis in the quote “sail after sail”

Answer 10

Giving you the image of the dorsal fin rising and fading away