Norman MacCaig - Basking Shark

"To stub an oar on a ______ where none should be,"

• Stone

• Shark

• Rock

• Boat

What effect is created by using the word "slounge"?

• To make it seem like the shark is looming out of the water

• To show the quick, rapid movements of the shark

• To make the shark seem scary

• To show the slow, ponderous movements of the shark

"Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me." What tone is being created by the parenthesis?

• Humour

• Sadness

• Fear

• Anger

"a sea tin-tacked with rain" - What effect is created by this quote?

• It makes the reader happy

• It makes the reader hear the sound of the rain

• It makes the reader hear the sea

• It makes the reader question their place in the world

"That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain." creates a ___________

"this decadent townee" - what does MacCaig mean by this?

• He lives in a city

• He doesn't care about the past

• He has immersed himself in nature and giving help to others

• He has separated himself from nature and is focused on hedonism.

"Swish up the dirt" - Swish is an example of what technique?

• Simile

• Onomatopoeia

• Alliteration

• Synecdoche

"Emerging from the slime of everything" - what point is being made here?

• That we are all disgusting

• That we all come from the same origins

• That the shark has serious mucus issues

• That the narrator has fallen in the water

"So who’s the monster?" shows us the narrator is beginning to think that...

• Nothing is monstrous

• The shark is a monster

• Everything is a monster

• Humanity is the monster.

"The thought made me grow pale

For _________ seconds"