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Buying Winkles

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  • What effect does the direct speech from the mother and the winkle seller have?
    Makes the story seem real
  • What technique is used when the pub is described with “golden mirrors”?
    Imagery
  • Why does Meehan include place names like Gardiner Street?
    To make the poem seem more real
  • 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 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
  • 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.
  • What tone is created by the phrase “even in rain I was happy”?
    excited, content, energetic
  • What poetic technique is seen in “ghosts on the stairs”?
    imagery
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