Aunt Julia

Question 1

Gaelic

Answer 1

W.C connotes different and unique emphasis aunt Julia’s unusualness

Question 2

Very loud and very fast

Answer 2

Appears extrovert loud connotes outgoing and eccentric

Question 3

I could not ….
I could not

Answer 3

Reporting emphasizes maccaigs helplessness

Question 4

Men’s boots

Answer 4

W.ccAunt Julia is quirky and unconventional entirely practical

Question 5

Strong foot

Answer 5

W.C she is burly and powerful emphasizes her independence

Question 6

Stained

Answer 6

W.C connotes forever and permanence inexplicably linked to land

Question 7

Marvelously

Answer 7

Connotes see and amazement shows how impressed he is by her

Question 8

All of stanza three

Answer 8

Lack of punctuation shows breathless excitement

Question 9

She was buckets and water flouncing into them.

Answer 9

W.C flouncing connotes eccentric and vigorous emphasis her large movements

Question 10

She was …
She was…
She was …

Answer 10

Serous of metaphors comparing her to her strong surroundings on the island and everyday items to emphasize her frugal and simple life yet her strong personality

Question 11

Brown eggs black skirts

Answer 11

W.connotes death and sadness suggests she is in mourning

Question 12

Three penny bits

Answer 12

Connotes poor and frugal. She doesn’t waste money

Question 13

(Last stanza) aunt Julia spoke Gaelic very loud and very fast

Answer 13

Repetition of opening lines emphasizes ???

Question 14

Learns and little she lay

Answer 14

Alliteration of l represents lilting accent of Gaelic speaker as he can now speak gailic

Question 15

Silenced

Answer 15

W.C still and quiet. Contrast to her during her life

Question 16

Absolute black

Answer 16

W.C finality and bleak. Eatlier the absolute darkness was homely without her it’s mourning

Question 17

At luskentyre . But I hear her still, welcoming me

Answer 17

Pause emphasizing poet regret

Question 18

Seagulls voice

Answer 18

Metaphor comparing aunt Julia’s voice the screeches of a seagull. Similar raids are they are both loud and fast. Emphasizes that she was always with the land and he hasn’t forgottenher

Question 19

Getting angry, getting angry

Answer 19

Repetition to show both are getting angry aunt Julia in life because he couldn’t answer her questions and him now as he can’t ask her questions or get to know her better

Question 20

Unanswered

Answer 20

Enjambment last line by itself tk emphasis the word choice

W.C connotes confusion and questions. Shows that his questions can never be answeard as she is dead