Homework: Poem Analysis

Year 8 Examination
Semester 1 2015
Talia Underdown J5 Goal: 50% Start: 11:15 Finish:
Question: 1
Three poetic devices used at the start of the poem are a metaphor, Onomatopoeia and simile.

Question: 2
The human – like activities of the spoonbill are ‘Squelching through the mud’, ‘digging bait’ and

Question: 3
The spoonbill is compared to two animals. They are ‘greedy calf’ and ‘giraffe with a spotted back.’ The usefulness of these two comparisons in helping me to understand what the poet sees and hears something is that the spoonbill moves like a greedy cow trying to get to its milk, and the spoonbill looks like a spotted giraffe because of all the dried mud on its back in uneven spots. These are the lines that describe the spoonbill to two animals. …show more content…
The poet tells me about the spoonbills flying ability by making me feel as if it flies very poorly, because as the spoonbill starts to fly it ends up crashlanding like an aeroplane or if it does start to fly it is all over the place because it is looking as if it is caught in a spider web and ends up crashlanding. So these are the two similes that describe the spoonbills flying