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Identify the comparison used for the pike's outline in stanza 2, and name the device.
Think of a machine that moves silently under water.
Give one example of personification in "Pike" and explain its effect.
Look for human expressions or feelings given to the fish.
The comparison of the dead pike's eye to a vice is an example of:
The comparison uses as or like.
Which device is used when the pond is said to be as deep as England?
No pond is literally that deep.
Choose three devices from the first movement (stanzas 1 to 4) and three from the last (stanzas 8 to 11). Explain how the change in devices reflects the poem's development.
Ask whether each device describes what is seen or conveys what is felt.
Rewrite the anecdote of the pike in the tank as a dramatic, detailed description of the killing. Then explain why Hughes's understated version is more effective.
Ask which version leaves more to the imagination and which better supports the poem's view of nature.
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