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Buying winkles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Themes | Childhood adventure, vibrancy of tenement life, glimpses of freedom, unfair gender based roles, invisibility of women |
| Key imagery | Winkles, light and darkness, “light in golden mirrors”, “glisten blue like little night skies” |
| Language | Sibilance, metaphor, dash, caesuras, line break, alliteration, lyrical realism, colloquial language |
| Tone | Excitement, upbeat, pride |
| Form | Five stanzas of varying length |
| Rhyme and rhythm | No rhyme scheme or rhythm |
| Style and syntax | Her need to tell the story comes before any poetic device concerns |