The FIsh

Question 1

The speaker caught a big fish

Answer 1

I caught a tremendous fish

Question 2

The fish didnt fight

Answer 2

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

Question 3

The speaker describes its skin

Answer 3

brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper

shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age

Question 4

the speaker describes its gills

Answer 4

frightening gills fresh and crisp with bood

Question 5

the speaker looks into the fish’s eyes

Answer 5

i looked into his eyes

Question 6

the poet admires its faces and describes it

Answer 6

I admired his sullen face

Question 7

the poet gives it human qualities

Answer 7

lower lip

Question 8

the speaker describes its lips

Answer 8

grim, wet, and weapon like

Question 9

the speaker notices something in its jaw

Answer 9

hung five old pieces of fish-line

Question 10

alliteration

Answer 10

strain and snap

Question 11

the speaker shows admiration for the fish in the way she describes the fish lines

Answer 11

like medals with their ribbons

Question 12

the poet describes the fish’s whiskers

Answer 12

beard of wisdom

Question 13

the poet shows the fish’s age through the description of its jaw

Answer 13

aching jaw

Question 14

the speaker has an epiphany

Answer 14

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

Question 15

the speaker sees bright colours in excitement

Answer 15

everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

Question 16

the poet lets the fish go in the end as she realises the fish is like her, it had gone thought a lot

Answer 16

And I let the fish go

Question 17

themes

Answer 17

nature
overcoming a diversity
advertising
moments of insight
man vs nature
ordinary moment