Prelim

Question 1

‘Clatter’

Answer 1

Onomatopoeia

- illustrates vivid/ loud strident sounds of horse hooves which were a familiar of everyday life. 🐴 🐎

Question 2

‘Clatter came’

Answer 2

Alliteration

-emphasis the expected quality of sound.

Question 3

“Creaked”

Answer 3

Onomatopoeia

- The high pitched sound conveys the energy of the location.

Question 4

“All the sounds”

Answer 4

Tone

- Reinforces the dramatic change.

Question 5

“Snuffing puff”

Answer 5

Consonance

- contrasts with harsher sounds to create a reassurance.

Question 6

‘When’

Answer 6

Word choice

The positioning of when suggests that it’s often a quiet but when noise arrive it becomes a loud place.

Question 7

“Scraped shut”

Answer 7

Symbolism:

-Door scrapping shut to echo fundamental nature of change and finality of the closed door.

Question 8

” you left me”

Answer 8

Word choice:
Accusatory tone.

• Display narrator’s emotional response.

Question 9

Structure

Answer 9

Writing in free verse helps to create a conversational style and tone, while the use of enjambment and repetition allows the poet to emphasise key aspects of the poem. Throughout these poems in order to better convey poet’s confusion and emotions over death.

• Aunt Julia
• Memorial
• Visiting Hour

Question 10

“Black”

Answer 10

Throughout the poems there’s reference to the colour “black”

V.S
- “ black figure” relating to the grim reaper returning to the theme of death.

A.J
- “absolute black” word choice conveys the frighteningly bleak void of death

Memorial
- “black words” tone changing here to being bleak and dark tone of hopelessness. Black suggests nothingness.

Question 11

Reference to water

Answer 11

“Water failing sixty feet”
- Stark contrast in imagery here it is frozen water comparison to the flowing, living water of stanza one.

“Water flouncing”
- poet feels his Aunt is so close to nature that she is a part of it but gives a description also of the deliberate, vigorous way she moved.