Work Cat

Question 1

‘It’s lucky I’m a rich man, it sure is lucky well, I’m a rich man’

Answer 1

Repetition of ‘rich’ anaphora of ‘I’m’ BD’s boastful personality- reader knows he wasn’t born rich and had to work for it

Question 2

Went to work like a N***a in the field

Answer 2

simile- emphasising BD had to work hard-comparing him to slaves

Question 3

‘Born poor, raised poor, expected to die poor, unless I manage to get us something’

Answer 3

Epiphora ‘poor’- Maggie wasn’t born into money- hence the importance of inheritance- only escape from cycle

Question 4

‘The click’

Answer 4

metaphor, repetition. Brick is a sports star/commentator turned alcoholic- shows his moment of peace

Question 5

‘Why sister woman- that’s my Diana Archery Trophy’

Answer 5

Common nouns ‘sister’ and ‘women’ lexical set of feminity. Determiner my. Trophy contradicts the idea of typical feminity and the southern belle, symbolises strength