The Fish - Emily Bishop

Question 1

Summary

Answer 1

“caught a tremendous fish”
“He didn’t fight, He hadn’t fought at all” “brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper”
“five old pieces of fish line”
“let the fish go”

Question 2

Fish’s appearance

Answer 2

“His brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper:
shapes like full-blown roses”
“He was speckled with barnacles, fine rosettes of lime”

Question 3

Fish as a survivor

Answer 3

“Five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth.”
“Like medals with their ribbons
frayed and wavering”

Question 4

Similes

Answer 4

“shapes like full-blown roses”
“coarse white flesh packed in like feathers”
“the pink swim-bladder like a big peony”
“Like medals with their ribbons
frayed and wavering”

Question 5

Metaphors

Answer 5

“fine rosettes of lime”
“the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass”
“a five-haired beard of wisdom”

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

“Rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!”

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

“Tarnished tinfoil”

Question 8

aesthetic imagery

Answer 8

“his brown skin hung in strips
like ancient wallpaper,
and its pattern of darker brown
was like wallpaper: shapes like full blown roses”
“the irises backed and packed
with tarnished tinfoil
seen through the lenses
of old scratched isinglass.”

Question 9

morbid imagery

Answer 9

“the frightening gills, fresh and crisp with blood”
the coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and the little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim-bladder like a big peony.”

Question 10

The fishing wires

Answer 10

“grim, wet, and weaponlike,
hung five old pieces of fish-line,
or four and a wire leader
with the swivel still attached,
with all their five big hooks
grown firmly in his mouth”