Assessment 3: Week 1A Flashcards
1) Quote 1
Theocritus
“I thought once how Theocritus had sung, of the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years”
- auditory imagery in Sonnet I, the audience is invited to visualize the picture Browning is painting S1
1) Quote 2
Melancholy
“The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, those of my own life, who by turns had flung a shadow across me”,
- metaphor designed to relate the known to the unknown for her audience S1
1) Quote 3
Old
“I love thee with a passion put to use in my old griefs.”
- grief that a later Persona experience in their past was surpassed by the strength of their love for their lover, as shown through the use of emotive language in SXLIII
1) Quote 4
Awful
“saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand”
- characterisation of Daisy
1) Quote 5
deficiency
“possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life”
- collective characterization
1) Quote 6
Boats
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
- metaphor
1) Quote 7
Contrarious
“Let us stay, rather on earth, Beloved, where the unfit contrarious moods of men recoil away”
- The action of “recoil away” is used to empathise the strength of the purity of their love. SXXII
1) Quote 8
Paper
“Yet I wept for ill—this,… the papers light…”
- metaphor Sonnet XXVII
1) Quote 9
Saints
““I love thee with a love I seemed to lose with my lost saints”
- Allusion SXLIII
1) Quote 10
Romp
““He knew that if he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God”
- irony
1) Quote 11
Voice
“‘Her voice is full of money’
- metaphor
1) Quote 12
struggles
““Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”
- metaphor
2) Q1
hair
“and drew me backward by the hair, and a voice said in mastery, while I strove”.
-The kinaesthetic imagery was designed to emphasise the powerful act SI
2) Q2
Feet
“I drop it at thy feet”.
-Browning again uses kinaesthetic imagery again to allow her audience to visualize the act and highlight its importance. SXIII
2) Q3
nought
imperative tone “If thou must love me”, to compel her lover into letting “it be for nought, except for love’s sake only”. SXIV
2) Q4
Fluttering
visual imagery, “They were both in white, and their dresses were rippling and fluttering as if they had just been blown back in after a short flight around the house
2) Q5
King
“High in a white palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl”
metaphor
2) Q6
Eyes
“Her frightened eyes told that whatever intentions, whatever courage she had had, were definitely gone.”
- visual imagery + characterization
2) Q7
Womanhood
Sonnet XIII during the Volta, “Nay, let the silence of my womanhood commend my woman-love to thy belief”. Through the use of auditory imagery
2) Q8
Fortitude
oxymoron “voiceless fortitude” to contradict and effectively critique whether the love between the persona and their partner is indeed safe within silence.
2) Q9
Again
Sonnet XXI’s persona’s partners behaviour “Say it over again, and yet once over again, that thou dost love me.” The repetition of “over again” is used to emphasise the persona’s desire to hear her partner vocalise his love,
2) Q10
stormily
bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily”. Fitzgerald employs the use of visual imagery to effectively emphasise the actions people took to achieve more success,
2) Q11
Nobody
“I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.” Fitzgerald uses irony as Tom is also committing an adulterous act with Mr Wilson’s wife, to portray how a husband would be able to act unfaithful to his love for his wife but swing back to it when the need arises.
2) Q12
Unwavering
is criticised by Fitzgerald as through the characterisation of Gatsby, who never allowed a woman to come along and “blot out those five years of unwavering devotion”.
