Aunt Julia Flashcards

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Very loud and very fast

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Confident

Bold

Not shy

Adds to maccaigs confusion

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2
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I could not answer her

I could not understand her

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Repetition

Feels helpless and frustrated

Regret

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3
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She wore men’s boots

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Unexpected

Not very feminine

Purposeful and practical

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4
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When she wore any

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Usually barefoot

Unusual

Macaig likes this quirkiness

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5
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Main themes of Aunt Julia

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Lack of communication

Survival

Traditions

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6
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Stained with peat

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Bare feet

Tough existence

Survival

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7
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Paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel

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Unusually long line to symbolise rhythm and time it took to spin

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8
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She was buckets and water flouncing into them

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Metaphor to emphasise strength and how often he saw her carrying water as there wasn’t any running water there at the time

Flouncing - onomatopoeia gives impression of water moving or bouncing

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9
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Seagulls voice

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Metaphor

Harsh

Incomprehensible

Loud

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10
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Strong foot

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Symbol of her

Hardworking and powerful from manual labour

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11
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Crickets being friendly

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Summer

Happy

Good memory

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12
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Winds pouring wetly

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Remembering the weather

Stormy weather would cause gusts of wind and rain to blow in your face as you turned around the end of a house

Remembers his aunt like this sensation of walking round a corner into the wind and rain, this shows energy, that she was uncontainable and a shock to the system

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13
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Brown eggs

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Lived off the land

Remembering chickens kept

Raw, natural

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14
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Black skirts

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Not fancy

Remembers her like that

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15
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A keeper of three penny bits

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Careful with her money

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16
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Aunt Julia spoke Gaelic (second time)

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Repetition to emphasise the main idea of the poem - regret

17
Q

By the time

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Too late

Regret

Sad that he never got to talk to her

18
Q

Absolute black

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Death, finality

19
Q

Welcoming me

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Even though he didn’t understand her he still felt welcome showing she is kind

20
Q

Unanswered

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Short line

Sentence structure to emphasise finality and regret