Basking Shark

Basking Shark

Tension, suspense and humour in opening
1. "To stub an oar on a rock . . . to have it rise"
2. "with a slounge out of the sea".
  1. has onomatopoeic effect
  2. Neologism ( new word) slouge and lounge
3. "happened once (too often) to me".
  1. parenthesis, suggests this is not an experience he would wish to repeat
assumes human superiority over shark
1. "on a sea tin-tacked with rain"
2. "That room sized monster with a matchbox brain".
  1. alliteration and metaphors
3. "I count as gain". Reflects it was worthwhile experience.
portrays throw back to prehistoric times/evolution
1. he shoggled me Centuries back".
  1. colloquial verb
2. "Shook on a wrong branch of his family tree".
  1. humans have gone wrong and are not superior.
3. "the decadent townee".
  1. he belittles himself
4. "emerging from the slime of everything"
  1. epiphanic sense of clarity, he understand now
  2. coming from the slime humans supposedly evolved
Clarity of thought that we are indeed the monster
1. "For twenty seconds, while sail, after sail"
  1. repetition and time emphasise scale
  2. graceful and elegant now in description

Resource summary

	Created by babyjane23 about 11 years ago