portrait of a loaf of bread Flashcards
1
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title
A
- 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
5
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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.
A
-
8
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Kneaded into mountains of dough
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- strong verb
- metaphor
9
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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
Q
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
