Storm on the Island

Question 1

BIG IDEA of Storm on the Island

Answer 1

power is only there if you let things scare you

power of nature

Question 2

Storm on the Island structure

Answer 2

blank verse
19 lines
- conversational tone
-unrhymed iambic pentameter

REVEALS THE CONTRAST BETWEEN 2 SIDES OF CONFLICT

Question 3

What is Storm on the Island an extended metaphor for?

Answer 3

‘The Troubles’
conflict in NI

Question 4

‘wizended earth’

Answer 4

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personificaion which describes the earth as an old friend

Question 5

‘exploding comfortably’

Answer 5

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oxymoron of violence and security juxtaposes

people have deemed this conflict as their normality

Question 6

‘Space is a salvo’

Answer 6

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military metaphor

air attacks comparison between weather and humand suggesting that they are only what we make them

Question 7

‘It is a huge nothing that we fear’

Answer 7

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Oxymoron
fear is a paradox
—-
‘nothing to fear but fear itself’
(ROOSEVELT QUOTE FROM HIS FIRST INAUGURAL ADDRESS)