deceptions

Question 1

What are the 2 ideas within the poem?

Answer 1

1. The speaker acknolwedges/explores the womans trauma of sexual assualt
2. comforts her through exploring the perpertrators thoughts

Question 2

1 - ‘I can taste the __’

Answer 2

grief - visceral image = her trauma is so bad it can be recognised by the sense

Question 3

1 - ‘he made you __.’

Answer 3

gulp - end stop + onomateopeia = the experience transitions to the aftermath + vulnerbaility of the victim

Question 4

1 - ‘the __ occassional print’

Answer 4

suns - pain has become her norm

Question 5

1 - ‘a light __ and tall and wide’

Answer 5

unanswerable - she can’t explain what happened + can’t move on

Question 6

1 - ‘your mind lay open like a drawer of __’

Answer 6

knives - similie = solidifies trauma as the mental inescapable torture and pain

Question 7

2 - ‘Sulms, years, have __ you’

Answer 7

buried - personification = can’t escape as time makes it worse - going against the cliche that ‘time heals’

Question 8

2 - ‘that you were the less __’

Answer 8

deceived - she understands more than he does - he is driven by untrue desires

Question 9

2 - ‘to burst into fulfillment’s __ attic’

Answer 9

desolate - metaphor = dissatisfaction, as he will never be satisifed/fullfilled