Simile - "herded like cattle" (10,11)
Dramatic irony - we know what is actually happening and she shouldn't be excited
Allusion - Gulliver
Alliteration - "bruise us with bitterness"
Rhyming couplet - "sight/white"
Imagery - "Gulliver scanning the horizon"
Onomatopoeia - "whisper" (17)
Plot - girl evacuated because she is Japanese - has to move - later realizes
Enjambment (run-on line) - "And loved the children and who gave me/ A puzzle to play with on the train" (24,25)
Tone/mood - excited, scared, naïve)
Stanza = one
Denotation - giant = big (Gulliver)
Connotation - "being white" - person, colour
Narrative -tells a story
Metaphor - "bruise us with bitterness" - not an actual bruise - internally (emotionally)
End stopped line - period on line 25
End rhyme - last two lines
Unity - same topic
Purpose - show point of view of Japanese (not dominant culture)
Figures of speech - bruise us with bitterness
Lyric - meaningful, short, and emotional
Exact rhyme - sight/white
Theme - Often, there is a difference between children's perspectives and adults. (dominant and minority cultures)
Conflict - between Japanese and Canadian government
Literal meaning - mountains
Figurative language - bruise us with bitterness
Didactic - teaching a moral lesson
Free verse - no pattern of rhythm or rhyme
Masculine rhyme - sight/white
Point of view - first person
Slant rhyme, eye, sight, -
Personification - bruise us with bitterness
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