Mrs Tilscher’s class

Question 1

Tea “You could travel up the Blue Nile”

Answer 1

T- metaphor, word choice
A- involves the reader, compares the childhood journey growing up with adventure along the Nile

Question 2

TA- e= “The laugh of a bell swung by a running child”

Answer 2

T= Transfer epithet
A- happy atmosphere, swung and running suggests a care free world, where children are free to grow and find themselves within a nurturing setting.

Question 3

Tea this “ pyramids rubbed into dust”

Answer 3

T- Word Choice and metaphor
A- “rubbed into dust”- sense of time passing and something ending. Speaker thinking. Mrs Tilscher is magical/wonderful enhances naivety of youth. “Pyramids were built through slavery/death. First sinister/dark real world creeping in.

Question 4

“Chanted” explain the word choice

Answer 4

Happy singing voice, soothing. Idea of casting a spell, magic

Question 5

“Opened with a long pole” explain the word choice.

Answer 5

Provides a specific detail of school life that keeps poem feeling good. Suggests the idea of the weirder world outside .

Question 6

“This was better than home” what technique is used?

Answer 6

Declarative sentence