The Emigree Flashcards

1
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The speaker of the Emigree is gendered…?

A

Female

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2
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The use of the word (which is different from Immigrant), suggests the poem is about…

A

Someone’s relationship with the country they left

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The speaker’s vision of her old country is naive and idealised in some ways, as shown by the…?

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Imagery of a ‘bright filled paperweight’ , a ‘hollow doll’ and other childish nostalgic Metaphors.

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4
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The use of sensory language in the reference to the speaker’s mother tongue reinforces…?

A

Her identification with and pleasure in her old culture/identity

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5
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Rumens repeatedly uses the imagery of…[what] to describe her old country?

A

Light and radiance

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The use of light is involved with synaesthesia in stanza 2 when the language…?

A

‘Tastes of sunlight’

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The positive imagery of her old country is contrasted by the negative imagery of…?

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War, conflict and death

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8
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The speaker;s ‘original view’ is sustained so that…

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It offsets the imagery of a totalitarian realm ruled by tyrants

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9
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In the ending of the poem, Rumens hints at the racism of the speaker’s adopted country through the line…?

A

‘The accuse me of being dark in their free city’

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10
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The final line contains an affirmation of her identity which ties her to her old country…

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‘My shadow falls as evidence of sunlight’

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