Storm On The Island

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

Swamy’s Heaney

Question 2

Name three themes it could be interpreted as

Answer 2

Power
Love
Conflict

Question 3

It’s a metaphor for what conflict

Answer 3

Northern Ireland’s

Question 4

What structure device reflects the overwhelming situation

Answer 4

Lack of stanza breaks

Lack of breath space

Question 5

‘Blast: you know what I mean’

Answer 5

Dramatic language vs ordinary language, oxymoronic to suggest its normal for narrator

Question 6

‘exploding comfortably’-oxymoron

Answer 6

Reflects how speaker has made sense of his conflict filled world

Question 7

Written in which ‘ameter’

Answer 7

Unrhymed iambic pentameter

Question 8

Which device creates rhythm

Answer 8

Enjambment

Question 9

The ‘comfortable’ explosions of waves echo on the ‘cliffs’

Answer 9

the hard ‘c’ sound provides the sound of the attacking wave and final ‘s’ on ‘cliffs’ echoing the hiss as the wave retreats over the stones

Question 10

When the water is flying the spray ‘hits the windows and ‘spits..

Answer 10

Is an internal rhyme that repeats this harsh contact