Starter quiz
- 'A figure of speech that involves comparing two unlike things using the words 'like' or 'as' ' is the definition of a ...
- 'simile' ✓
- 'A guess that you make or an opinion that you form based on the information that you have' is the definition of an ...
- 'inference' ✓
- 'A figure of speech that involves comparing two things using the verb 'to be' ' is the definition of a ...
- 'metaphor' ✓
- Birds in literature generally represent ...
- pleasure.
- freedom. ✓
- death.
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- To 'taunt' someone means to ...
- intentionally try to cheer someone up.
- intentionally try to upset someone. ✓
- intentionally try to distract someone.
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- Stereotypically, we associate mothers with ideas of ...
- adventure.
- predictability. ✓
- spontaneity.
- stability. ✓
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Exit quiz
- 'Form a concept or idea of (something)' is the definition of ______.
- 'conceptualise' ✓
- 'Able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked' is the definition of being ______.
- 'vulnerable' ✓
- Which of the following is a fair summary of Forster's 'Mother, Diving'?
- The mother is paralysed by her fear of swimming and diving.
- The mother overcomes her fear of diving from the high board. ✓
- The poem celebrates the mother's love of swimming and the freedom it gives her.
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- Which comparative image in Forster's 'Mother, Diving' could suggest the subversion of maternal stereotypes?
- "dolphin"
- "guillemot"
- "Johnny Weissmuller" ✓
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- 'To overcome (an obstacle, feeling, desire, etc)' is the definition of ______.
- 'conquer' ✓
- Forster's choice to use a metaphor as the final comparative image in 'Mother, Diving' could suggest ...
- that the mother hasn't changed.
- that the mother is completely transformed. ✓
- that the mother may have changed but not fundamentally.
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Key learning points
- Analysing comparative imagery can offer a rich textual analysis.
- Arguably, similes and metaphors are conceptually different.
- The comparative imagery throughout ‘Mother, Diving’ could show how the mother has found freedom.
- The comparative imagery could also represent the mother subverting maternal stereotypes.
Common misconception
That similes and metaphors are interchangeable.
Similes and metaphors are conceptually different since, in a simile, one thing does not become another while in a metaphor they do become each other.
Keywords
Conceptualise - form a concept or idea of (something)
Vulnerable - able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked
Conquer - to overcome (an obstacle, feeling, desire, etc)
Transformation - a complete change in the appearance or character of something or someone
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