A potato drill in Ireland
A spade
Click below to see a short video on cutting peat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=of5cWjD9CKg
Click here for a reading of the poem read by Heaney himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzJgbNANzk
Assonance - the repeated vowl sound from the middle of a word
Verb - an action word
Adverb - a word that modifies a verb - usually ends 'ly'
Rhyming couplet - a couplet of lines that rhyme
Alliteration - the repetition of the opening consonant
Informal register - written or spoken language that could be described as a casual, familiar, and generally colloquial.
Colloquial lexis - language that is generally informal - casual and familiar to
slang - unconventional lexis often using metaphor, more common in spoken language, to taboo words - profanity is a word, which is socially unacceptable or offensive.
Onomatopoeia - a word drawn from a sound associated with what is named
