Worksheets"The Fish" Elizabeth Bishop
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 8mins
Key themes in this poem are:
Suffering and Resillience
Loneliness and Struggles
Solidarity and Commonality
Humanity and Nature
There is a tone of (a) when we see the fish puts up no fight in the beginning.
Bishop experiences a moment of 1)_________ and releases the fish out of 2)__________ for his struggles and his determination.
1) epiphany 2) love
1) realisation 2) respect
1) epiphany 2) respect
1) realisation 2) love
Bishop uses unusual similes and images. Choose the simile from the following:
"He hung a grunting weight"
"While his gills were breathing in the terrible oxygen"
"the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails"
"Like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering"
Bishop presents us a fish whom she sees as a (a) .
Throughout her poem, Bishop deliberately makes use of Personification to help us to ...
appreciate the fish as a character who has survived much, as we humans might.
see the fish as more than simply a meal to be caught, killed, and forgotten.
understand that we share the planet with creatures who may be more than we give them credit for.
all of the above
In the penultimate line of the poem, Bishop uses a repetition to demonstrate her wonder and awe. What word is repeated in this line?
(a)
This poem has a particular format, tick the boxes that are relevant to how this poem is written.
Multiple stanzas
A Fable with a moral
Singular Narrative
First person perspective
Multiple perspectives
The fish is used as the central (a) of the poem, like in an old fable.
By the end of the poem we may have a clue as to why the fish did not struggle in the beginning:
He had never experienced this before and was confused
He was terrified and drowning in oxygen
He had been caught many times in his past and was perhaps too exhausted to fight any more
He knew she would let him go because he'd been let go five times before
