For the Fire
This technique creates sound imagery when the persona hears a "thud" but cannot see it.
What is onomatopoeia?
The persona looks down at the sea from this area.
What is cliff/precipice?
The accident that occurred and what time.
What is car wreck and 4 o'clock?
Martin displays this to the other students in the classroom.
What is hand grenade?
A batman's dismissal for a score of zero.
What is duck?
This source believes the sound in the forest comes from a human.
Who is persona?
Nature is depicted as wild and dangerous through this technique - "sound like fire".
What is sound imagery?
The persona looks through the trees to see this image.
What is adults in their homes?
Another way of saying 'to kill a man' - a word from the poem.
What is mortality?
The world lacks this according to Foulcher.
What is rules?
He compares the wind to a clock using this technique.
What is juxtaposition?
A century ago, in the poem, this event took place.
What is shipwreck?
This technique addresses the reader - "you wrench yourself from the road".
What is pronoun?
The technique that makes death the pursuer in the poem.
What is personification?
The form of the poem.
What is free verse?
Through the persona's perspective, the bird becomes a killer. There is a new technique used in this phrase.
What is personification?
The power of nature is stressed through these words - "lugged/dumped".
What is verb?
What is primeval?
The classroom is depicted as a war zone through this phrase.
What is desk trenches?
The values of Don Bradman as symbolised in the poem.
What is fair, understated, sportsmanship, humility?
The story is told from the persona's perspective.
What is first-person narration?
A metaphor is positioned to suggest humans don't care by comparing us to these things.
What is sheep and cattle?
Humanity is downplayed when the car accident is compared to this as the persona watches.
What is child violence?
The word in the poem that suggests a certain level of excitement from the class.
What is possibilities?
The bluntness of the poem is achieved through this technique?
What is jargon?