Search for my tounge

Question 1

What does the direct address convey

Answer 1

‘You’ suggests that the person being addressed doesn’t understand what it is like to lose your mother tongue.

Question 2

What does the interruption of a different language suggest

Answer 2

It shows that her mother tounge cannot be repressed Nashe wants the reader to feel what it’s like to be bilingual and encounter another alphabet.

Question 3

What does the caesura on line 3 suggest

Answer 3

Her mother tounge returning to her is a slow process