Mrs Midas 10 Marker: Change/Contrast

Question 1

“My tongue shedding its skin like a snake”

Answer 1

Speaker is adapting to new country as her accent changes to match her surroundings

Question 2

“All childhood is an emigration”

Answer 2

Comparing growing up to moving countries, requires lots of change and adapting and is new and scary. Different for each child.

Question 3

“The inky tadpoles changed from commas into exclamation marks”

Answer 3

Mixed metaphor comparing frogs to punctuation to children growing up.

Question 4

“Sugar paper. Coloured shapes. Brady and Hindly

faded”

Answer 4

Juxtaposition. Contrast between classroom environment and moor murders incident outside classroom.

Question 5

“Running children in a nightmare heat”

Answer 5

Contrast as British children running is seen as them having fun.
While for kids in war they are running for their lives.

Question 6

“Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”

Answer 6

Contrast between disturbing images of war and chaos and the photographer trying to bring order to this chaos while organising the images in rows

Question 7

“Over the Easter term” “That feverish July”

Answer 7

Change in term time mirrors change happening in children.

Summer- Change in time and childhood coming to an end.