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COTLB Flashcards

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Title/theme

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  • connotations of charge sound aggressive and connote violence.
  • theme of patriotism ‘noble six hundred’ and repetition of ‘honour’
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Beginning

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‘Half a league, half a league’

  • in media’s Rez
  • repetition
  • highlights action
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Soapaims

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  • ‘jaws of death’
  • ‘mouth of hell’ (personification)
  • ‘forward[…]charge’ (imperative verbs)
  • ‘there is not to[…]there is not to[…]there is not to’ (anaphora)
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Soapaims again

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  • ‘volley’d and thundered’. (Sound of war)
  • ‘stormed at wit shot and shell’ (sibilance)
  • ‘valley of death’
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Structure

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  • dyctalic rhythm
  • last stanza was shorted due to loss of men
  • sound of horses
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Ending

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‘Noble six hundred’
Patriot of noble
Focuses on this not that ‘someone had blundered’

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Context

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  • Alfred lord Tennyson
  • poet lauriet at the time
  • about the Crimean war
  • focus on bravery of war.
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English GCSE Poetry (5 decks)

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