Literary Devices
"Thump" is an example of this literary device.
onomatopoeia
" the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box"
Why is the word "enormous" repeated here?
It is repeated to stress the size of the bird.
The second hawk comes out of the box like a __________________.
Victorian melodrama
We’ll check the __________ against the ____________.
ring numbers, Article 10s
A griffon is a ______________
cross between a lion and a ahwk
"The air turned syrupy, slow, flecked with dust."
syrupy,slow is an example of this literary device...
Alliteration - used to show how time slowed in that moment.
"The hawk’s wings, barred and beating, the sharp fingers of her dark-tipped primaries cutting the air, her feathers raised like the scattered quills of a fretful porpentine"
This sentence suggest that the hawk feels.....
anxious and scared as it is moved out of the box.
The second hawk is a sort of _________________.
madwoman in the attack.
'Don’t want you going home with ______________.'
...the wrong bird.'
a marionette is a _______________
puppet
"The last few seconds before a battle."
Battle is an example of this kind of literary device...
Metaphor - this sentence creates tension and foreshadowing in the moments before the hawks are released.
What are three of the metaphors that the author uses in sequence to describe the first hawk?
She is a conjuring trick.
A reptile.
A fallen angel.
A griffon from the pages of an illuminated bestiary.
A broken marionette
Instead of twittering she ________________.
wailed.
My heart jumps ______________.
sideways
According to the writer, you can find a griffon in a(n) ___________________________.
illuminated bestiary
"And with the last bow pulled free, he reached inside, and amidst a whirring, chaotic clatter of wings and feet and talons and a high-pitched twittering and it’s all happening at once, the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box and in a strange coincidence of world and deed a great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury."
The use of 'and' in this sentence is an example of what literary device?
Repetition - the recurrence of 'and' creates a long, complex sentence that illustrates the chaos and flurry of events that happen when the 1st hawk is released.
"For one awful, long moment she is hanging head-downward, wings open, like __________"
What is the remainder of the simile in this sentence?
a turkey in a butcher’s shop.
I looked into her eyes and saw something __________________________.
blank and crazy
All at once I _________ and ____________.
I loved this man, fiercely
It was the wrong bird. This was the younger one. The smaller one. This was not my hawk. ___________.
What word follows next?
Oh.
"... great flood of sunlight drenches us and everything is brilliance and fury."
This fragment is an example of what literary device?
Vivid imagery - this is used to cast the 1st hawk in a positive light compared to the "smokier and darker" 2nd hawk.
"...her wild eyes were the _______________."
"colour of sun on white paper"
I didn’t recognize her. This_____________.
What is the next sentence?
This isn’t my hawk.
"...was pleading with him on a quayside, hands held out as if she were in a ____________________.
seaside production of Medea
The breed of hawks in the text are _______________.
goshawks