h isd for hawk
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- Created on: 13-05-21 15:51
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- 'H is for Hawk' by Helen Macdonald
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- Form
- autobiography
- conological order
- audience
- people interested in falconry
- people interested in learning recovering from grief
- readers of literary non-fiction
- Topic
- training a goshawk
- recovering from grief
- Purpose
- to entertain
- to explain
- to inform
- Form
- structure and form
- short sentence
- 'concentration. Infinite caution.'
- increases tension and suspense
- slows down pace of text
- hyperbole
- 'concentration. Infinite caution.'
- complex sentences & lists
- 'the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box … a great flood of sunlight drenched us.'
- increases pace of text
- creates a sense of immediacy and chaos
- shows sensory overload and breathlessness Macdonald experiences
- 'the man pulls an enormous, enormous hawk out of the box … a great flood of sunlight drenched us.'
- one word paragraph
- 'Oh.'
- shows her shock
- tension and suspense
- 'Oh.'
- italics
- 'This isn't my hawk.'
- inner thoughts expressed through italics
- emphasizes her desperation
- 'This isn't my hawk.'
- Juxtaposition
- 'pulling a sheF of yellow paper from the rucksack.'
- juxtaposition between paragraph on and the rest of the text
- dry, formal and technical language juxtaposed with the vivid imagery and tension of the rest of the text.
- 'pulling a sheF of yellow paper from the rucksack.'
- cliff hanger
- 'There was a moment of total silence
- we are left in suspense at the end of the text
- we do not know if she gets the first hawk or the second hawk
- we are left in suspense at the end of the text
- 'There was a moment of total silence
- short sentence
- language
- Direct speech
- 'Do you think there's any chance...'
- direct speech comes out as blurted showing she is nervous
- 'Do you think there's any chance...'
- war imagery
- Irony
- 'from fearful sights. Like us.'
- minor sentence suggest irony, such a powerful bird should feel afraid of the writer who shows signs of nervousness herself
- 'crazy barrage.'
- irony, the writer sounds like the second hawk
- 'from fearful sights. Like us.'
- juxtaposition
- 'brilliance and fury.'
- shows beautiful bird which is dangerous
- 'brilliance and fury.'
- metaphors
- 'A fallen angel.'
- biblical imagery, references to lusifer, The Devil. Lucifer betrayed his leader God.
- 'A conjuring trick.'
- magical, the hawk can disappear and appear quickly, shows the speed and agility of the goshawk and how unpredictable the bird is.
- 'A fallen angel.'
- references
- 'Madwoman in the attack.'
- pun on 'Madwoman in the attic.'
- reference to a character in the novel Jane Ere
- shows the writer doesn't have a good relationship with this haw.
- 'Madwoman in the attack.'
- exlamation
- 'And dear God.'
- shows she's shocked by the appearance of the bird
- 'And dear God.'
- Direct speech
- language
- alliteration
- 'white-faced woman with wind-wrecked hair.'
- emphasizes how much her grief about he father's death has affected her
- 'white-faced woman with wind-wrecked hair.'
- alliteration
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