Seagull Brian McCabe

Question 1

What are the seagulls doing when they are drumming worms from the ground?

Accepted Answer

Stamping their feet so it sounds like rain and worms come out.

Question 2

"the stamp of our wide webbed feet" which techniques are used here?

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia and alliteration

Question 3

"We drum the worms from the ground" which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia

Question 4

"murdered fish supper" which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 5

"With a snap of our big bent beaks" which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

alliteration, Onomatopoeia

Question 6

"hooligan yells" which technique?

Accepted Answer

onomatopoeia, personification

Question 7

What does 'has connotations of' mean?

Accepted Answer

reminds me of, suggests, makes me think about, hints at

Question 8

" We mug thrushes" which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

personification

Question 9

"We kill kebabs" Which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

Personification, Alliteration

Question 10

What does to analyse mean?

Accepted Answer

To think about something more deeply.

Question 11

Which skills are we using when we study poetry?

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Literacy, Analysis, Communication

Question 12

What kind of essay will we write when we finish analysing the poem?

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Critical essay

Question 13

Why is the last quotation personification?

Accepted Answer

because a fish supper can't die, because it is making the seagull seem like a person, because it is comparing something using like or as

Question 14

What is a marauder?

Accepted Answer

Someone who steals, Someone who goes around causing trouble

Question 15

What does tinsel usually have connotations of?

Accepted Answer

Christmas

Question 16

"We prey on pizza" which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

Alliteration

Question 17

What do all of these previous examples make us think about the seagulls?

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They are hooligans, They are bullies

Question 18

"Here we go" has connotations of....

Accepted Answer

football chants

Question 19

What does to 'annotate' mean?

Accepted Answer

To add notes to something

Question 20

"cover the area/ like cops ..." which technique is this?

Accepted Answer

alliteration, simile

Questions 20