Little Red Cap Flashcards
Author of Little Red Cap
Carol Ann Duffy
“that a greying wolf howls the same__________
same old song at the moon.”
metaphor
“But then I was young -
and it took ten years in the woods to tell that___________
a mushroom stoppers the mouth of a buried corpse”
metaphor
“till you came at last to________
the edge of the woods”
allegory (extended metaphor)
symbolism [the woods]
“I lost both shoes______
but got there, wolf’s lair, better beware”
enjambment
rhyme
“I clung till________
dawn to his thrashing fur”
adjective
“Then I slid from between______
his heavy matted paws and went in search of a living bird-white dove”
symbolism
adjective
“… sweet sixteen, never been, babe, waif, and______
bought me a drink,
my first”
enjambment
rhyme
“I took an axe ______
to a willow to see how it wept.
I took an axe to a salmon to see how it leapt…”
parallel structure
repetition
metaphor
“Here’s why. _____
Poetry.”
short sentence
“away from home to a ________
dark, tangled, thorny place”
adjectives
metaphor [leaving adolescence]
