Literary Devices
Technique is used in:
“They watch their flickering knots like television.”
What is a simile?
Number of stanzas in the poem Carpet-weavers, Morocco
What is Four?
Tone is created in:
“Their braids are oiled and black, their dresses bright.”
What is positive?
Theme shown in:
“The children are hard at work in the school of days.”
What is labour?
Idea suggested about the carpets in the poem
What is culture?
Technique is used in:
“Then they will lace the dark-rose veins of the tree-tops.”
What is a metaphor?
Structural technique used in:
“From their fingers the colours of all-that-will-be fly and freeze into the frame of all-that-was.”
when the sentence runs across the line without stopping
What is enjambement?
Tone suggested in:
“The children are hard at work in the school of days.”
What is reflective?
Theme shown in:
“It will be spread by the servants of the mosque.”
What is religion?
What does the poem suggest about the purpose of the children’s work?
What is devotion?
Type of imagery in:
“Their assorted heights would make a melodious chime.”
What is Auditory Imagery?
Rhyme scheme of the poem
What is a Free verse?
Tone created by the religious reference in:
“It will be spread by the servants of the mosque.”
What is reverent?
Theme suggested in:
“The carpet will travel in the merchant’s truck.”
What is trade?
What idea is conveyed by the carpet continuing its journey after it is finished?
What is persistence?
Technique that links weaving to creation in:
“The children are at the loom of another world.”
What is symbolism?
Structural effect created by moving from
“The children are at the loom of another world.”
to
“The carpet will travel in the merchant’s truck.”?
What is a contrast?
Tone created in
“Deep and soft, it will give when heaped with prayer.”
What is Respectful?
Theme shown in:
“From their fingers the colours of all-that-will-be fly and freeze into the frame of all-that-was.”
What is time?
What does the poem suggest happens to the children’s lives through their work?
What is legacy?
Technique used in the religious reference in:
“It will be spread by the servants of the mosque.”
What is an Allusion?
Structural effect created by ending with:
“freeze into the frame of all-that-was.”
What is Finality
Tone created by the contrast in:
“From their fingers the colours of all-that-will-be fly and freeze into the frame of all-that-was.”
Theme suggested by the contrast between the working children and the finished sacred carpet?
What is Sacrifice?
What deeper idea is suggested about beauty being created through the children’s labour?
What is exploitation?