A Voice Spoke to me at Night by Helen McClory (Scottish Highers English): Flashcards
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Why narrator is unnamed/gender unspecified
Why narrator is unnamed/gender unspecified
Creates sense narrator could be anyone
Narrative perspective used
Narrative perspective used
First-person narration
Definition of 'brownfield'
Definition of 'brownfield'
Land developed before but now lies empty
What Middle English is
What Middle English is
Older form of English
When tobacco arrived in Britain
When tobacco arrived in Britain
1586 with Sir Francis Drake
How narrator engages with history
How narrator engages with history
Passively, through mediated forms like games
Figure in mirror's contradictory appearance
Figure in mirror's contradictory appearance
Both skeletal and ruddy in cheeks
What the brownfield site becomes
What the brownfield site becomes
Location for historical visitation
How narrator manages loneliness
How narrator manages loneliness
Minimal human connection via technology
What history becomes for narrator
What history becomes for narrator
An aesthetic/style, not lived reality