portrait of a loaf of bread Flashcards
1
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title
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- encompasses the process
2
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Look back to the rolling fields
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- connotations of fields
- personification
3
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waving gold-topped wheat stalks
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- rich and golden
- personification
4
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mowed by the reaper’s scythe,
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- dark gloomy death
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bundled into sheaves
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-
6
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carted to the mill
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-
7
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and ground into flour.
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-
8
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Kneaded into mountains of dough
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- strong verb
- metaphor
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to be churned by rollers
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- strong verb
10
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and spat into pans as red hot
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- strong verb
-
11
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as Satan’s cauldron.
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- immense heat
- dangerous
- labour intensive
12
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Brought to the café,
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-
13
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warmly wrapped in cellophane,
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- evocative of steam
- enticing
- alliteration : warmth
14
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by ‘Eat Fresh Bread’ bakery van;
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- simplicity
15
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for the waiting cook
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- purposeful
16
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to slice and toast
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- faster rhythm
17
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to butter and to marmalade
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-
18
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for the food-bedecked breakfast table.
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-
19
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Whilst the labourer
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- juxtaposition between café and labour sit
20
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with fingers caked with
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- no time to wash hands
21
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wet cement of a builder’s scaffold
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- no time to wash hands
22
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mauls a hunk and a cold drink
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- attack
- savagery
- satiate hunger
23
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and licks his lips and laughs
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- enjoyment
- delighted attitude
24
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‘Man can live on bread alone.’
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- allusion : biblical
- no need for anything else
- christianity
- satisfactory tone
25
form
- free verse : contradicts orderly process
- enjambment : continuous process
- sustained enjoyment
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rhythm
- slow rhythm : minimal effort
- faster rhythm : efficiency
- slower rhythm : enjoyment, fulfilling
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mood
- appreciation
| - satisfaction
