Advice To A Teenage Daughter

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

Mother passing her words of wisdom to her daughter about love

Question 2

Tone

Answer 2

Soft and caring ‘beware my sweet’
Caution ‘conquest may seem easy but’
Humour ‘ you can’t compete with football’

Question 3

Theme

Answer 3

Unrequited love
Relationships
Comparison as falling in love with ‘a new war game’
To achieve love is based on appearance according to daughter
‘Brave ranks of lipstick’ ‘ tiny pots of manufactured stick on Stars’
‘ the scented dynamite of flowers’ ‘dreaded tweezers’

Question 4

Metaphor

Answer 4

‘War-game’ comparing love as preparing for battle
‘Armies, ranks, conquest, swords’
‘Swords of cherry pink and flame’ - war paint

Question 5

Hyperbole

Answer 5

War game

Question 6

Personification

Answer 6

Miniature armies of little jars

Perfectly lined up jars of makeup

Question 7

Alliteration

Answer 7

‘Motorcycles, cars, cricket’ the straightforward thinking of boys

Question 8

Images

Answer 8

Military images of the ‘war game’ portraying love as a battle
Positive ‘lipsticks’
Negative ‘tweezers’

Question 9

Language

Answer 9

Warning 
Senses 
Visual 
Olfactory - smell of perfume 
Military language associated with war