questions to remember for exam Flashcards
- Name Two devices in the poem Birdshooting Season?
Metaphor: “men make marriages with their guns” lines 1-2
- This highlights the fact that the men are keeping their guns close to them and that the women have been neglected in this season.
Personification: “My father’s house turns macho” line 3
- This is used to emphasize the fact that there are numerous men present at the persona’s father’s house and that these men are competing with each other which makes the atmosphere quite ‘masculine.’
Name two themes in the poem Birdshooting season?
- Nature
- Relationships
Name two Literary devices in Sonnet Composed Upon West Minster Bridge?
personification: the very houses seem asleep - showing respect and admiration of the serenity and splendour of the city’s buildings, beauty is fleeting.
Simile: the city now doth, like a garment, wear - compares the manner in which the beauty of the morning settles over the city as garment on a body.
Name Two themes in Sonnet Composed Upon West Minster Bridge?
Nature, Man vs Environment, Places
Name Two literary devices in African Thunderstrom?
Repetition: the wind whistles by and trees bend to let it pass - there was no fight/resistance by nature or the people.
Onomatopeia: Rumble, Tremble, Crack - vivid picture of the destruction caused by the storm.
Name Two themes in African Thunderstrom?
Colonization and Nature vs Man.
Name two literary devices in Little Boy crying?
alliteration: a quick slap struck - use to show that his father slapped him.
Allusion: the ogre towers above you - alludes to the fairytale, Jack and the beanstalk
Name two themes in Little Boy Crying?
Childhood Experiences, Parenting, Innocence
Name two Literary devices in West Indies USA?
Pun: Island of the free - America’s anthem states they are the land of the free.
Also ironic because Puerto Rico is a colony of the US so they are not technically free.
Name two themes in West Indies USA?
Places, Discrimination and Oppression
Name two Literary devices in The Woman Speaks to a Man who Employed her Son?
Simile: her son was first made to her as a sense of unease - the mother placed all her hopes in her son.
metaphor: When you are poor, generally, you have no prospects, you only dream and hope.
Name two themes in The Woman Speaks to a Man who Employed her Son?
Religion, Love and Family Relationships.
“Like a plague of locusts, “ in African thunderstrom
the wind is compared to a plague, which suggests a destructive force with a large amount of something, thus showing the large number of dark clouds building up and moving in the sky
“Like a madman chasing nothing”
he wind is now likened to a madman’s unfocused wandering in its directionless movement.
- A madman usually poses a threat to the people around him due to his lack of restraint and sanity
- the wind is being painted as an impending doom ready to wreak havoc upon anything it encounters.
“The wind whistles by, and trees bend to let it pass.”
These lines give the sound the wind makes, but more importantly, it shows the power of the
wind as it forces the trees to bow and bend before it.
