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English Literature Paper 2 Flashcards

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Paper 2, Section B, Unseen Poetry, Part 1

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  • (Poet’s name) makes use of … to demonstrate their feelings about …
  • This is demonstrated by their use of (quote for language/structure technique)
  • This is efficiently as (analysis and terminology for language/analysis of stuctural technique)
  • They have coveying their feelings to the audience about … as …
  • (*3)
  • 35 minutes
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Paper 2, Unseen Poetry, Part 2

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Both poems convey how (point)
- This is evident in (1st poem) in which (poet’s name) states that ‘…’.
- This illustrates how … as the usage of the (terminology) suggests that …
- Repeat for 2nd poem
- Link (Both poets illustrate how…)

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Ozymandias Quotes

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  • Sneer of cold command
  • My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings
  • Look on my works and despair
  • Colossal wreck
  • Boundless and bare
  • Sands stretch far away
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London Quotes

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  • I wander through each chartered street
  • Marks of weakness, marks of woe
  • Every cry of every man
  • Blood down palace walls
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Remains Quotes

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  • Possibly armed, possibly not
  • I see every round rip through his life
  • Tosses his guts back into his body
  • His blood-shadow stays
  • Drink and drugs won’t flush him out
  • His bloody life in my bloody hands
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Exposure Quotes

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  • Our brains ache
  • East winds that knive
  • Twitching agonies of men
  • For our love of God seems dying
  • But nothing happens (repetition)
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Bayonet Charge Quotes

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  • Suddenly he awoke and was running
  • The patriotic fear
  • Listening between his footfalls for his still running
  • King, honour, human dignity, etcetera
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Ozymandias Summary

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The poem concerns the discovery of a semi-destroyed and decaying statue of Ramesses II, also known as Ozymandias, and shows how power deteriorates and will not last forever.

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The Prelude: Stealing the Boat Summary

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Wordsworth describes stealing a boat when he was younger. He rows it out into a lake and sees a mountain which troubles him due to its sheer size. At the beginning of the poem, Wordsworth is a confident young man, comfortable with his place in nature and his surroundings.

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My Last Duchess Summary

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The poem is an exploration of jealousy and possessiveness within a marriage, gendered expectations of women, and the treatment of women as a personal possession. The poem is a commentary on power, control, and gender roles.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade Summary

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The poem is about a group of 600 British soldiers who were sent into a battle against a much stronger group of Russian soldiers during the Crimean War. The light brigade fought bravely for their country, but lost many men to the Russians.

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Exposure Summary

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Wilfred Owen’s poem focuses on the misery felt by World War One soldiers waiting overnight in the trenches. Although nothing is happening and there is no fighting, there is still danger because they are exposed to the extreme cold and their wait through the night is terrifying.

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Storm on the Island Summary

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Heaney has authored a poem about a community of islanders who are preparing for a storm, investigating the battle of ​nature vs man. It centres on their experience of the storm, and how they appear to get them regularly, and then how this impacts life on the island as they wait inside for it to pass.

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Bayonet Charge Summary

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This poem describes the few desperate moments of a soldier’s charge against a defended position. It underscores the feelings of fear, dislocation and confusion common in battle.

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Remains Summary

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The poem is about a soldier who is haunted by his involvement in a shooting of a bank looter. It also explores the repercussions of war for individuals who come out of conflict zones and raises awareness of conditions such as ​PTSD​.

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Poppies Summary

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The poem tells the story of a mother’s experience of watching her son go off to war. reaction to this. She speaks about helping to smarten his uniform before he leaves and afterwards, she visits places which remind her of him; desperate to feel close to him. The poem shows the effect of war on those left behind.

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War Photographer Summary

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The poem follows the journey of a man who returns from a war-torn land to develop his photographs. The pictures remind him of his experiences and the atrocities which are happening abroad. The violence in the war zones is contrasted with the nonchalant attitude of the Western world.

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Tissue Summary

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In the poem, the speaker uses tissue paper as an extended metaphor for life. It reveals the power of paper, and how it can be used to alter things or to record things. However, despite its power, it is still fragile, delicate and may not last, creating a sense of the fragility of human life.

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The Emigree Summary

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The poem is about somebody who had to leave their country as a child to be safe. They are looking back fondly whilst lamenting the discrimination they experience in their new country.

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Kamikaze Summary

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The poem is about a failed Kamikaze pilot and his family’s reaction to him. The pilot sets off on his mission but changes his mind and returns home, thus failing to complete this mission. On his return, his family refuse to speak to him and he is shunned by society. The narrator of the poem is his daughter.

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Checking Out Me History Summary

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The speaker is recounting all of the historical figures he was taught as a child, he then lists all of the figures from black history who were not mentioned. He resolves to discover more about his own heritage.

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London Summary

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The poem centres from a ​first-person perspective ​on an annoymous speaker (who could be assumed to be Blake) walking through London, and commenting on the filfh and currouption he sees, including the child labour, monarchial abuse, and prostiution he witnesses.

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Ozymandias Structure/Form

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  • Iambic pentameter
  • Damaged rhyme scheme (like statue)
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London Structure/Form

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  • Dramatic monologue (personal)
  • ABAB (relentless and predictable misery)
  • S1 and S2 (people), S3 (institutes responsible), S4 (people)
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Exposure Structure/Form

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  • 1st person plural (collective)
  • Personification (nature’ threat)
  • Regular rhyme scheme (repetitive)
  • Similar stanzas (emotionless)
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Bayonet Charge Structure

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  • Starts in media res
  • S1, soldier acts on instinct, S2, time slows down, S3, loses humanity
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Remains Structure

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  • Starts in media res
  • Responsibility shift from we to I
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Paper 2, Section A

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  • Intro (In An Inspector Calls, Priestley presents (topic) as (3 points))
  • One example of this is how (topic) is conveyed as (point)
  • In the play, … states that ‘…’, this phrase illustrates that …
  • Priestley’s usage of the (terminology) ‘…’ implies that …
  • He intends for his audience to reflect on the fact that (context linking to point)
  • Priestley demonstrates (point of topic) through …
  • (3 paragraphs)
  • Overall, Priestley presents … as … . throughout the play, he encourages audiences to …
  • 40 minutes
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Paper 2, Section B, Seen Poetry

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  • Both (poet’s names) similarly/differently present (topic) as (3 points).
  • 3 paragraphs
  • Both poems convey how (point)
  • This is evident in (1st poem) in which (poet’s name) states that ‘…’.
  • This illustrates how … as the usage of the (terminology) suggests that …
  • Repeat for 2nd poem
  • Link (Both poets convey how…)
  • Conclusion (In (poems), both (poets names) convincingly write about (topic and 3 points)
  • 40 minutes
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An Inspector Calls Quotes

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  • You’re making our marriage sound like a political alliance
  • There’s not going to be a war, Eric
  • The Titanic is unsinkable, absoluteky unsinkable
  • Is this the ring you wanted me to have?
  • You’d think we’re muddled up like bees in a hive
  • (Repetition of Girls of that class)
  • I know all the policemen of Brumley. Of course
  • So you remember her now?
  • She said he’d never get away with paying us like this if we were men
  • If you don’t come down hard on these people then they’d soon be asking for the earth
  • But is is better to ask for the earth than to take it
  • I can’t be held responsible for things people I had dealings with choose to do in 2 or 3 years time
  • I play golf with your chief constable, regularly. I don’t play golf
  • Well she wasn’t pretty when I saw her this afternoon
  • I’ll leave when I am finished, Mr.Birling
  • If I’d find the girl in the shop again then we’d close our account
  • Oh just say it Gerald, it was a horrible thing to do
  • Stop upsetting the girl
  • I’m not a child, Gerald, I’d rather have the truth
  • I don’t think its the right time. That’s for me to decide
  • This has gone one for long enough, they are supposed to be celebrating
  • I cannot bare to see a damsel in distress
  • She said she was not used to such kindness
  • Yes I adored it for a time, nearly any man would
  • So you had what you wanted from her and casted her aside
  • If that was her idea of good then I’m afraid there was no hope for her
  • I don’t think you need to ensure us about our son, Inspector
  • Public men have responsibilities as well as privelidges
  • Yes we tend to make an impression on the younger ones
  • I think you know very well why she wanted help
  • He’s of a different class, it wouldn’t work. The you must make it work
  • Perhaps you people will understand how desperate she was
  • If you ask me, I think it was a cowardly act
  • This drunken young idler shoud be made an example of
  • Shut your mouth
  • I needed her much more than she needed me
  • You’re not the kind of father I can go to when in trouble
  • I don’t have time for this
  • You all helped to kill her, nerver forget
  • There are still millions of Eva and John Smiths among us
  • If man won’t take responsibility then he will be taught in fire and in blood
  • I hope this comes up
  • I’d rather be in prison than here
  • It was almost as if he could see into out souls
  • This does not change what has happened and what we have done

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