Analysing 'Climbing My Grandfather'
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- Q1What is the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather' about?someone reminiscing about climbing up their grandfather's body as a childsomeone exploring the grandfather's attic after their deathsomeone climbing a mountain with their grandfather30s
- Q2How does the speaker feel at the beginning of the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather'?exhausted but triumphantexcited but nervousworried for their safetysafe and securesad and lonely30s
- Q3A ______ is when you compare two things using 'like' or 'as'.Users enter free textType an Answer30s
- Q4Which examples below are a metaphors?Users sort answers between categoriesSorting30s
- Q5Which of the quotations from the middle of the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather' show the speaker is becoming worried about the risks of their climb?"the slow pulse of his good heart""I change direction, traverse along his belt""I rest for while in the shade, not looking down""the glassy ridge of a scar""old brogues, dusty and cracked"30s
- Q6When a writer repeatedly draws on the same metaphorical comparison throughout a text, we call it an ...extended metaphor.extended noun phrase.repetition.alliterative phrase.30s