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1
Q

The speaker caught a big fish

A

I caught a tremendous fish

2
Q

The fish didnt fight

A

He didn’t fight. He hadn’t faught at all

3
Q

The speaker describes its skin

A

brown skin hung in strips like ancient wallpaper

shapes like full-blown roses stained and lost through age

4
Q

the speaker describes its gills

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frightening gills fresh and crisp with bood

5
Q

the speaker looks into the fish’s eyes

A

i looked into his eyes

6
Q

the poet admires its faces and describes it

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I admired his sullen face

7
Q

the poet gives it human qualities

A

lower lip

8
Q

the speaker describes its lips

A

grim, wet, and weapon like

9
Q

the speaker notices something in its jaw

A

hung five old pieces of fish-line

10
Q

alliteration

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strain and snap

11
Q

the speaker shows admiration for the fish in the way she describes the fish lines

A

like medals with their ribbons

12
Q

the poet describes the fish’s whiskers

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beard of wisdom

13
Q

the poet shows the fish’s age through the description of its jaw

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aching jaw

14
Q

the speaker has an epiphany

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I stared and stared and victory filled up the little rented boat

15
Q

the speaker sees bright colours in excitement

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everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow!

16
Q

the poet lets the fish go in the end as she realises the fish is like her, it had gone thought a lot

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And I let the fish go

17
Q

themes

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nature
overcoming a diversity
advertising
moments of insight
man vs nature
ordinary moment