A Minor Role Flashcards

1
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What does the talking role of the speaker reflect?

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Role people play in society and whether it’s a minor or key role

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What is the feeling of the poem

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Uncomfortable and tense, although it shifts and becomes more relaxed
- illness becomes more prominent

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3
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What is the poem about?

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Place in society, pattern about social expectations, society can’t appreciate what it is like

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4
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About the life of the speaker written in a

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Dramatic monologue

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5
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What does it encourage the reader to do?

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Wonder about the speakers situation, ‘minor role’ not really noticed by the audience

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6
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How many verses?

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6 written in free versus

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7
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What are the verses like?

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Not equal, irregular in length and same

- no rhyme

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8
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Which person is it written in?

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First

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9
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What is it a metaphor for?

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Extended metaphor about life on stage

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10
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‘Bed solves a lot’

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Side tracks reader from main point

- parenthetical phrases

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11
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References to theatre encourage

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Reader to wonder about the readers situation

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12
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Title

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At the start he accepts his ‘minor role’ but at the end passionately rejects it

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13
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‘On stage’

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Pretence, poet questions if putting up a facade is better than facing reality

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14
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‘Propping up a spear’

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Not important

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15
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‘Exists and entrances’

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Alliteration highlights boring and repetitive tasks

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‘Yes sit o no sir’

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Italics, being agreeable to people in high authority

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17
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‘Midget moments’

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Alliteration

18
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‘Monstrous’

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Evocative pronoun

19
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Tone

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Seems to change

  • quite erratic
  • speaker changes from one task to the next
  • doesn’t want to reflect
  • avoidance, hopelessness
20
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‘Veteran magazines’

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Out of date magazines for war heroes

21
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‘Monologues’

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Bitterness, frustration

, consultant talks at her

22
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‘Background music of civility’

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Constant polite and unobtrusive behaviour

23
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‘Holding’

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Nouns to indicate monotonous speaker must endure

24
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‘Monstrous’

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Represents how speaker funds social structure unpleasant and too rigid

25
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‘Cancel things’

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Disappointment of the things he hoped to do

26
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‘Anyone stops&!

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Alone, embarrassed

- not wanting to interact and have to tell the truth

27
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‘Bed? A good idea!

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Voice inside her head, alone, isolation

28
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‘Track down’

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Doesn’t want to eat but she has too

29
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‘ soft centred’

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Can’t find novels that aren’t about death

30
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‘Midget moments’

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Scared of being laughed at

- self conscious m- being observed and watched

31
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‘Holding hands under magazines’

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Shaking,control, old magazines are a metaphor for her

32
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‘It would have been better to die&!

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Asterix is a link to the play ‘Oedipus Rex’ tragedy

- Oedipus begs for death

33
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‘I am here to make you believe in life

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Simple and powerful

  • should be great full for good health
  • command breaking through
34
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‘Thankyou’

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Angry and frustration

  • has no one - emphasis on speech
  • mentioned at beginning standing on stage for setting aren’t important
35
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Spear

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Symbolic for lack of importanceX she shouldn’t complain and accept her death going to fight at the end

36
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‘Exists and entrances’

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Alliteration which shows how things are repeated and monotonous
‘7 ages of man speech’

37
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‘Mysteriously reassuring’

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Cats are relatable pets, comfort

38
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Verse two

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Imagery is used in the line sustaining the background music that goes on continually

39
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‘War’

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Imagerywith words ‘ veteran’ and ‘jettison’

40
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‘Ceremonial day’

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Suggests funeral and death imagery