Divorce Flashcards
1
Q
“Father, your breath
smells like a camel’s and gives me the hump”
A
Speaker uses a simile to compare the father’s breath to a camel and is intending to hurt the father’s feelings
2
Q
“There are parents in the world whose faces turn up to the light
who speak in the soft murmurs of rivers
and never shout”
A
The poet uses a metaphor to create an unrealistic view of the ‘perfect’ parents and compares their voices to rivers - quiet and gentle - and say that they never shout
3
Q
“I did not promise
to stay with you till death do us part, or
anything like that,
so part I must, and quickly”
A
Reference to wedding vows with a formal tone making the reader believe the speaker is an adult
