My Rival's House by Liz Lochead

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• 2. euphemisms that convey the mother as snobbish (4, 2, 3, 5)
• 3. Defensive and guarded (1, 2, 3, 5)
• 4. duelling metaphor- the maternal role gives her first victory in a battle for her son (5, 5, 2, 3)
• 7. sibilance that draws attention to the metaphor which suggests that the family are just possesions (6, 4, 9)
• 8. the tone is blunt, the enjambment and lack of rhyme emphasise that the rivalry will not end (3, 4, 4, 2)
• 9. Sinister connotations, we don't see the reflections but twisted versions instead (11)