Search for my tongue Flashcards
1
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‘Search for my tongue’
A
Desire to recover identity
2
Q
‘You ask me what I mean’
A
Direct address - engages reader
3
Q
‘Lost my tongue’
A
Idiom- extended metaphor
4
Q
‘Two tongues in your mouth’
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Metaphor-stresses the difficulty and discomfort
5
Q
‘Mother’ and ‘foreign tongue’
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Contrast- close links to identify vs something alien
6
Q
‘Spit it out’
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Harsh consonant sounds mirror the struggle/fight
7
Q
‘Rot, rot and die’
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Imagery of death
8
Q
‘But overnight while I dream’
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Turning point in the poem
9
Q
‘Grows’
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Repetition- contrast of death from the first stanza
10
Q
‘ Stump of a shoot’
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Floral imagery of life - describing her first language as beautiful
