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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Extra | She couldn’t be quiet in the face of prejudice |
| Themes | The cycle of poverty, education as an escape form poverty, dignity of work in all its forms |
| Key images | The cloud of chalk, the simile of chickens on a conveyor belt, plucked feathers |
| Tone | Critical of society, thoughtful and weighty |
| Rhyme | Free verse |
| Form | Nine tercets (three line stanzas) |
| Language | Enjambement, Line break, assonance, caesuras, dash, metaphor, simile, alliteration, Volta |
| Style and syntax | Style starts in the time of the incident and progresses into reflections back onto it as a grown woman by the middle of the poem, this is called a Volta (rhetorical shift) |