English Literature Flashcards
3 quotes from Exposure
“Winds that knife us” = personification
“All their eyes are ice” = metaphor
“Misery of dawn” = oxymoron
3 quotes from storm on the island
“Wind dives” = personification
“Bombarded by the empty air” = semantic field of war
“Tame cat turned savage” = simile
3 quotes from Bayonet Charge
“Bullets smacking the belly” = personification
“Threw up a yellow hare” = metaphor
“Dropped like luxuries” = metaphor
3 quotes from Kamikaze
“Strung our like bunting” = simile, celebrating suggest joy of life
“A samurai sword” = alliteration, symbol of honour
“He must of wondered which had been a better way to die” = semantic field of death, conflict honour vs love
3 quotes from war photographer
“A hundred agonies in black and white”
“Blood stained into foreign dust”
“All flesh is grass”
3 quotes from charge of the light brigade
“Forward, the light brigade! Charge for the guns”
“Cannons to the right of them,
Cannons to the left of them,
Cannons in front of them”
“Six hundred” = repetition in every stanza
3 quotes from London
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3 quotes from ozymandias
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3 quotes from Poppies
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3 quotes from, Extract from the prelude
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3 quotes from the my last duchess
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3 quotes from remains
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3 quotes from tissue
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3 quotes from the emigree
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3 quotes from checking out me history
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