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The Fish Flashcards

By Elizabeth Bishop

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Quote that emphasizes the size of the fish

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Tremendous fish

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Quote showing the fish didn’t struggle

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He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all

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Simile comparing fish’s skin to something domestic

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His brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper

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Quote that shows Bishop has come to admire the fish

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  • I admired his sullen face
  • five-haired beard of wisdom
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Military simile describing the 5 fish hooks

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Like medals with their ribbons

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A description of the 5 fish lines showing the fish was wise

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A five-haired beard of wisdom

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A quote that shows her sense of triumph at catching the fish

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  • And victory filled up the little rented boat
  • I caught a tremendous fish
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Moment of epiphany involving colour

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Until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

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Quote that shows what decision the poet came to

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And I let the fish go

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Showing disgusting aspect of the fish

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  • Infested with tiny white sea-lice
  • his brown skin hung in strips
    like ancient wallpaper
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11
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Bishop tries to communicate with fish by doing this

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I looked into his eyes

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12
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Ending when she decides to release fish

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And I let the fish go

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Examples of precise description

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  • tremendous fish
    and held him beside the boat
    half out of water, with my hook
    fast in a corner of his mouth
  • Infested with tiny white sea lice
  • A green line, frayed at the end where he broke it, two heavier lines and a fine black thread still crimped from the strain and snap where it broke and he got away
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Examples of unusual imagery

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  • brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper
  • shapes like full blown roses
  • the pink swim bladder like a big peony
  • the irises backed and packed
    with tarnished tinfoil
    seen through the lenses
    of old scratched isinglass
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Examples of floral imagery

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  • shapes like full blown roses
  • the pink swim bladder like a big peony
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Examples of domestic imagery

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  • Brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper
  • the irises backed and packed with tarnished tinfoil
17
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Quote showing the fish is old

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  • speckled with barnacles
  • five-haired beard of wisdom
  • A green line, frayed at the end
    where he broke it, two heavier lines,
    and a fine black thread
    still crimped from the strain and snap
    when it broke and he got away.
18
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Examples of military imagery

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  • fine rosettes of lime
  • Like medals with their ribbons
19
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The point when Bishop begins to identify with the fish

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terrible oxygen

20
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Quote showing that the fish doesn’t care about her - unsentimental

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They shifted a little, but not to return my stare

21
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Two quotes demonstrating tone change

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  • tremendous fish
  • And I let the fish go
22
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Quote demonstrating her pride in catching the fish

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I caught a tremendous fish

23
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Quote showing her surprise that the fish didn’t put up a fight

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He didn’t fight. / He hadn’t fought at all

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Quote demonstrating her curiosity about the fish

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I looked into his eyes

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Quotes showing her disgust at the fish

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  • his brown skin hung in strips/like ancient wallpaper
  • infested with tiny white sea-lice
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Quote showing her fear of the fish

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the frightening gills, / fresh and crisp with blood, / that can cut so badly

27
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Quote showing her sympathy towards the fish

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his gills were breathing in / the terrible oxygen

28
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Quotes demonstrating her admiration and respect for the fish

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  • Like medals with their ribbons… a five-haired beard of wisdom/ trailing from his aching jaw
  • I admired his sullen face
29
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Quotes showing her unsentimentality

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They shifted a little, but not to return my stare

30
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Examples of her use of repetition

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  • He didn’t fight/He hadn’t fought at all
  • his brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper, / and its pattern of darker brown/ was like wallpaper
  • rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
31
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Examples of Bishop’s use of conversational language

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  • He hadn’t fought at all
  • And I let the fish go
32
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Examples of Bishop’s use of colour

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  • dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails
  • the bailer rusted orange
  • rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!
33
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Example of contrast

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where oil had spread a rainbow / around the rusted engine

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Examples of alliteration

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  • beside the boat
  • still crimped from the strain and snap (sibilance)
35
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Quote demonstrating theme of nature

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I caught a tremendous fish

36
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Quote demonstrating theme of human spirit

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I stared and stared and victory filled up
The little rented boat

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