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What technique is used when the winkles are described as “glisten blue like little night skies”?
Simile
What type of figurative language is “bulging fat with winkles proudly home, like torches”?
simile
What poetic technique is seen in “ghosts on the stairs”?
imagery
Why does Meehan include place names like Gardiner Street?
To make the poem seem more real
What tone is created by the phrase “even in rain I was happy”?
excited, content, energetic
How does the poet contrast light and dark imagery in the poem?
Tenement stairs are dark, bar is bright, child carries the winkles 'like torches'
What technique is used when the pub is described with “golden mirrors”?
Imagery
What effect does the direct speech from the mother and the winkle seller have?
Makes the story seem real
How does the simile of the winkles as torches connect to the idea of a quest in the poem?
The child carries the winkles like the hero of a myth returns with a prize.
