Answer — Exercise 1

b)

1. An adult (probably an old person) who was three / a very young child at the time of the remembered event.
2. The old lady called her over and gave her a saucer of bilberries and cream.
3. These phrases involve the reader and make the poem more like a conversation.

c)

See

• a dusty road
• a mountain
• an old house
• tree
• an old woman in a red shawl
• a grey cat on her knee
• berries and cream

Hear

• what the old woman said to her: 'Do you like bilberries and cream for tea?'
• the old woman humming
• the cat purring

Smell

• everything that used to be

Taste

• berries

Feel

• the sun
• the heat on the road