Scottish Text Quotes

Question 1

Aunt Julia

Answer 1

• “marvellously” (Word Choice)

- “she was brown eggs” (Metaphor)

Question 2

Visiting Hour

Answer 2

• “wasted” (Word Choice)
• “a withered hand / trembles on its stalk” (Metaphor)
• “white cave of forgetfulness” (Metaphor)

Question 3

Memorial

Answer 3

• “intolerable distance” (Word Choice)
• “soundlessness” (Word Choice)
• “No crocus is carved more gently / than the way her dying / shapes my mind” (Metaphor)
• “carousel of language” (Metaphor)

Question 4

Sounds of the Day

Answer 4

• “door / scraped shut” (Metaphor)
• “When you plunge your hand in freezing water / you feel / a bangle of ice round your wrist / before the whole hand goes numb” (Metaphor)