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SEARCH FOR MY TONGUE Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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‘if you had…’

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Agressive confrontational tone

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‘rot, rot’

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Unpleasant/disgusting imagery
Repetition
Anadiplosis
Distressing metaphor as distressed she could lose her tongue

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‘spit it out’

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Plosive consonance
Pun
Shows difficulty with her new language

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Gujurati

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Makes the reader feel uncomfortable
Poet invites us to experience the difficulty and uncomfortableness of learning/understanding a new language

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Rhyme/meter?

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FREE Verse

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Form?

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Dramatic monologue

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‘shoot… grows… grows… bud… bud… blossoms’

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Semantic field of nature
Positive images
Extended metaphor of tongue being a flower

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‘grows longer, grows moist, grows strong veins’

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Tricolon
Sibilance
Anaphora

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9
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themes

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language
indentity

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10
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first person narrative

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  • indetity
  • personal
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ENGLISH LIT (21 decks)

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