Toads

Question 1

Title.

Answer 1

Extended metaphor for work.

Toads - unpleasant. venomous. slimy. unwanted.

Toads do a lot of work for little fulfilment

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

Regular half rhyme

Question 3

Squat

Answer 3

Uncomfortable. Awkward. Irritating.

Question 4

wit

Answer 4

cleverness

Question 5

and drive the brute off

Answer 5

emphasises work is a ‘brute’

Question 6

six days of the week it soils

Answer 6

sibilance. work contaminates all your week except one day just to pay off bills

Question 7

with its sickening poison

Answer 7

slowly painfully killing - suggests work impedes health bills

Question 8

wits

Answer 8

clever. ez for them

Question 9

lecturer

Answer 9

someone who speaks a lot. easy for them, clever. typically privileged background

Question 10

lotus

Answer 10

aggressive man. or drunken.

Question 11

paupers

Answer 11

bad situation

Question 12

folk

Answer 12

talking ab homeless ppl

demotic lang - posh/privileged wouldnt say or be referred to as that - so unfortunate normal ppl

Question 13

windfalls

Answer 13

fruit that falls naturally because of wind

Question 14

they seem to like it

Answer 14

hes ignorant / satisfied yet sarcastic

as highlighting he prefers ppl to his class.

but yet mocks them whom are below as well as resents higher classes.

unapologetic, classist, arrogant

Question 15

their unspeakable wives

Answer 15

dehumanising

disrespectful

Question 16

stuff your pension

Answer 16

says that why he has to work

Question 17

but i know all too well thats the stuff that dreams are made on

Answer 17

volta. shift in tone.

first person. intertextual reference to the The Tempest.

trying to very subtly brag of knowledge of reading then going to Oxford

Question 18

something sufficiently toad like squats in me too

Answer 18

he enjoys work secretly after dissing it

Question 19

the fame and the girl and the money

Answer 19

syndetic list.

superficial ideas of success

mocking tone