material - ros barber

Question 1

octets

Answer 1

change is constant

Question 2

enjambment

Answer 2

journey from past to present

Question 3

disjunction

Answer 3

contradictions of past and present

Question 4

half rhyme

Answer 4

childhood

previous traditions

Question 5

volta

Answer 5

symbolic of how loss can take away regularity of life

Question 6

title

Answer 6

relevant and important

clothing, resources

materialistic consumerism

Question 7

‘my mother was the hanky queen’

Answer 7

not anymore - ‘was’

light hearted, humorous tone

holds her mother in a high light

Question 8

‘when hanky meant a thing of cloth’

Answer 8

temporal deixis

substantial - lasts

Question 9

‘late night garages and shops’

Answer 9

less value

cheap

convenient

not a priority anymore - society is becoming careless and selfish

Question 10

‘but things for waving out of trains’

Answer 10

the past

disjunction

show emotion

saying goodbye on train - goodbye to the past

Question 11

‘when hankies were material’

Answer 11

meaningful and important

temporal deixis

Question 12

‘always up her sleeve’

Answer 12

temporal deixis

always prepared

idiom

substantial contribution to make to the world - hanky represents the stronger, longer-lasting fabric of the world her mother lived in, which is now gone

constant in her life

Question 13

‘tucked in the wrist of every cardi’

Answer 13

feminine

past generations

prepared, predictable

homely and domestic

highlights how quickly her mother aged

Question 14

‘embroidered with a ‘v’ for viv’

Answer 14

individualism

personalised

memories are personal

Question 15

‘spittled and scrubbed against my face’

Answer 15

caring

old school

loving

hands on

cleaning a mark

harsh embarrassment caused by mother

Question 16

‘dried up hankies fell in love and mated, raising little squares’

Answer 16

humorous tone - how mother was

jocular tone (childlike)

out of love

Question 17

‘she bought her own. i never did’

Answer 17

caesura

change of generation

Question 18

‘hankies were presents from distant aunts’

Answer 18

ubiquitous

equivalent of socks

Question 19

‘the naffest christmas gift you’d get’

Answer 19

distasteful

devaluing

Question 20

‘it was hankies that closed department stores’

Answer 20

volta

everyone used to go there

not anymore

the past is dying

Question 21

‘trouser presses and homely props’

Answer 21

more time - valued the little things in life, slow living

generational things

Question 22

‘hankies, which demanded irons, shuttered the doors of family stores when those who used to buy them died’

Answer 22

personification

need attention - cleaned often - society is less caring

assonance

end of an era - no longer relevant

Question 23

‘greengrocer george with his dodgy foot delievering veg from his comma van’

Answer 23

alliteration

relationships, personal - know details

enjambement - transition into new generation

Question 24

‘local crab’

Answer 24

more intimate

place had identity

Question 25

‘lay opposite the dancing school’

Answer 25

spatial shift

long gone

Question 26

‘step together, step together, step together’

Answer 26

echolalia

adds depth to memories

society is out of step

Question 27

‘the annual talent show’

Answer 27

more global now - bgt

locality dies

Question 28

‘nostalgia only makes me old’

Answer 28

metaphor

times change

Question 29

‘the innocence i want to brood to cling onto like ten bob notes

Answer 29

abstract noun

protect herself from change

language from the time - doesn’t want to forget

Question 30

‘killed in tv’s lassitude’

Answer 30

laziness

wants to be like her mum but didn’t

societal shifts and influences

metaphor

Question 31

‘there’s never a hanky up my sleeve’

Answer 31

less hands on

less caring

unaware

guilty

Question 32

headlines

Answer 32

power of tradition - ‘when hankies were material’

we can make our own traditions - ‘this is your material’

memories are part of our identity - ‘ embroidered with a v for viv’

differences in generations - ‘there’s never a hanky up my sleeve’

nostalgia for our childhood’ - ‘dried up hankies fell in love’

loss of intimacy which mass consumerism brings - ‘bought biscuits i would bake’

we slowly lose out traditions - ‘who used to buy them died’

the disappearance of a once ubiquitous object and what it represented - ‘tissues and uncertainty’

the world moves on but we can’t let go of the past - i miss material handkerchiefs and their soft and hidden history