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Critical Essay - Strawberries Flashcards

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1
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What are the main techniques/ideas to include in a form paragraph?

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  • Free verse - Lack of structure
  • Enjambement (continuation of a line)
  • Lack of Punctuation
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What does lack of punctuation show?

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o	Pure emotion
o	Unfiltered
	No rules/boundaries
o	Lack of constraint
	Carefree
	Liberation
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What does a slow pace create?

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An erotic feeling

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What is enjambment?

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The continuation of a sentence over lines

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What does enjambment show?

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	Indulging 
	Lost in the memories
o	Freedom
o	Free flowing thoughts
- Slow pace
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What does free verse show?

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o Free flowing thoughts

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How would you write a topic sentence for a form paragraph?

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Morgan uses form to establish a (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/transience) in the poem.

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What are the key ideas that should be included in a symbolism paragraph?

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  • Title
  • Red colour
  • Sweet taste
  • Ripeness
  • Summer
  • Not bitter about it coming to an end
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What does the title of the poem show?

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The significance of the strawberries

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What does the red colour of strawberries represent?

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Lust

Passion

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What is the importance of the sweet taste in the poem? What it the point?

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  • Sensual quality
  • Focus on the mouth
  • Erotic feeling
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What does the ripeness of a strawberry represent in the poem?

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  • Short period
  • Transience
  • Fleeting nature
  • Fling
  • Summer
  • Turn sour
  • Persona not bitter about things coming to an end
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What does summer symbolise in the poem?

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  • Peak
  • Heat
  • Catalyst of relationship
  • Links with afternoon
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How would you construct a topic sentence for symbolism?

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A (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/sense of transience) is added to through the poets use of symbolism.

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What quote is used for simile?

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“abandoned like a child”

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How would you start the simile paragraph?

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Just as….so too

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For simile, just as children are…

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  • energetic
  • carefree
  • trusting
  • pure
  • innocent
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For simile, so too do we understand that the lovers…

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  • Are excited by each other
  • trust each other
  • are young and naïve
19
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What does childhood represent?

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  • Confidence
  • No worries
  • Happy
20
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How is the idea of transience included in a simile paragraph?

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Children

  • grow old
  • lose livelihood
  • lose innocence
  • lust disappears
21
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What is the standard topic sentence for simile?

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Simile is utilised by the poet to convey a (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/sense of transience)

22
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What should be included in a repetition paragraph?

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  • Command verb
  • Labial dental
  • stressed “t”
  • meaning of let
  • monosymbolic
  • significance
  • immersed
  • reliving
23
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Why is ‘let’ repeated?

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To emphasis its importance

24
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What does the labial dental do?

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  • on the ‘l’ sound

- associated with eroticism

25
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What is the literal root of the word ‘let’

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To submit, allow and invite

26
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What is the persona hoping to achieve by using the word ‘let’?

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Asking for the experience to be recreated, to be able to relive it again

27
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What is important about ‘let’?

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Carries connotations about living in the moment

The persona seeks to experience the event once again through (the power of memory)`

28
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What is the key message given by the repetition of ‘let’?

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To appreciate fleeting moments
To slow down
To not rush

29
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What does the stressed ‘t’ add to the poem?

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Sounds more forceful and significant

Persona begging to be allowed to relive the experience

30
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What is the standard topic sentence for repetition?

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The poet uses repetition to deepen the (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/sense of transience)

31
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What should be included in a alliteration paragraph?

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Sibilance
Sensuality
Voiceless alveolar fricative
Erotic

32
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What is sibilance and what is it’s purpose in the poem?

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  • Repetition of the letter ‘s’
  • Mirrors soft hush of the day, the idea of summer sounds
  • Creates an immersive sensory experience
  • Represents sensuality
33
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What is voiceless alveolar fricative and how does it contribute to the poem?

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  • Sound articulated via the tip of the tongue
  • Creates erotic feel by drawing attention to the mouth
  • Is a reflection of the passion felt by the persona
34
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What is the standard topic sentence for alliteration?

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The poet uses alliteration to deepen the (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/sense of transience)

35
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What quote is used for pathetic fallacy?

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“let the storm wash away the plates”

36
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What should be included in the pathetic fallacy paragraph?

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  • Storm
  • “summer lightning”
  • Reset to equilibrium
37
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In pathetic fallacy, what does the storm represent?

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  • Build up of sexual tension
  • Humidity
  • Friction
  • Transience
  • Passion
38
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What does the humidity represent in pathetic fallacy?

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Climax
Peak
Intensity

39
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What does “summer lightning” represent?

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Sparks

- electricity

40
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What does the reset to equilibrium represent?

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Short term fling

Transience

41
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What is the standard topic sentence for pathetic fallacy?

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The technique of Pathetic Fallacy is used by Morgan to show this (memorable experience/passionate tone/sense of wonder/sense of transience)

42
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How do you write a good introduction?

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  • Name of poem and author
  • Techniques used
  • What these techniques do (ref to question)
  • What the poem is about (recalling a lustful, sexual encounter on a sultry summer afternoon)
43
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What is enjambement?

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The continuation of a sentence over lines

44
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What order do the paragraphs go in?

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Form
Symbolism
Simile
Repetition
Alliteration
Pathetic Fallacy

Higher English - 2021/2022 (5 decks)

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