On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book Revision

Question 1

Who wrote OFASFCIAB?

Answer 1

Charles Tennyson Turner

Question 2

What are the three main ideas in OFASFCIAB?

Answer 2

1. The fragility of life.
2. The inevitability and unpredictability of death.
3. The insignificance of human life.

Question 3

What are two poetic techniques in OFASFCIAB with examples?

Answer 3

“lift ourselves to soar away” - enjambment amplifies sense of movement and freedom that is suddenly denied to the fly.
“The peril is beside us” - personification of a close and faithful companion.