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Small female skull and Cliché Kid
Carol Ann duffy Small female skull and Cliché Kid
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Small Female skull What is the structure? Is there a rhyme scheme?
Where is the poem set? What is happening? Why is the narrator “grinning back at the joke”? How and why is the speaker so tender towards her skull?
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Cliché kid What are the clichés in the poem?
How are Americanisms used? When does a person become a cliché? How does structure support the poem’s meaning? What is the effect of the speaker mixing up words in the last line?
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Mixing metaphors do you recognise metaphors in the cliché kid and small female skull from any of the other poems in this selection? Essay plan: Compare and Contrast how the present is affected by the past in the cliché kid and Nostalgia. Essay plan: Compare and Contrast how self-love and self protectiveness are portrayed in small female skull and beachcomber.
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