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📖English Literature Quotes (image Stimulus) And Themes/Characters Flashcards

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Exposure

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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us

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Exposure

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Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous
- Sibilance creates hissing sound of the wind

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Exposure

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Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles

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Eng: kamikaze

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at the little fishing boats
strung out like bunting
on a green-blue translucent sea
- emphasises the temptation of life below

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Eng: kamikaze

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And though he came back
Leaves the man’s name out of it, because he came back in shame

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Eng: kamikaze

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like a huge flag waved first one way
then the other in a figure of eight
The figure of eight symbolises the fact that he returned

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Eng: remains

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His blood-shadow stays on the street
The metaphor emphasises how the events will always stain the place, blood connotes death and lingering rememberance

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Eng remains

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I see every round as it rips through his life –
I see broad daylight on the other side
Graphic hyperbole, suggests ptsd

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Eng: remains

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and he’s probably armed, and possibly not.
This is repeated across the text, suggests regret and guilt

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Eng: charge of the light brigade

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His terror’s touchy dynamite

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Eng: charge of the light brigade

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Was he the hand pointing that second?
Change of pace, almost slow motion

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Eng: charge of the light brigade

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The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest
Juxtapose idea of tear with molten iron

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what is this quote from:
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us

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Exposure

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What is this quote from:
Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous

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Exposure

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What is this quote from:
Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles

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Exposure

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What is this quote from:
at the little fishing boats
strung out like bunting
on a green-blue translucent sea

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Kamikaze

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What is this quote from:
And though he came back

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Kamikaze

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What is this quote from:
like a huge flag waved first one way
then the other in a figure of eight

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Kamikaze

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What is this quote from:
His blood-shadow stays on the street

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Remains

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What is this quote from:
I see every round as it rips through his life –
I see broad daylight on the other side

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Remains

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What is this quote from:
and he’s probably armed, and possibly not.

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Remains

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What is this quote from:
His terror’s touchy dynamite

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Charge of the light brigatde

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What is this quote from:
Was he the hand pointing that second?

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Charge of the light brigade

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What is this quote from:
The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye
Sweating like molten iron from the centre of his chest

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Charge of the light brigade

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ralph
I’m chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue.
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ralph
Ralph, too, was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh
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ralph
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy
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jack
I ought to be chief...because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.
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jack
Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt!
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jack
Sharpen a stick at both ends.
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piggy
life... is scientific
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piggy
Give me my specs!
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piggy
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think?
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simon
Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us.
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simon
You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway. (why does Simon say you and not we)
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simon
We used [Piggy’s] specs...He helped that way.
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roger
I've been watching the sea. There hasn't been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we'll never be rescued. (he does not think that they will be rescued and so he thinks that they should just adapt to the island)
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roger
roger remained, watching the littluns.
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roger
We've got plenty of time! (To stay (after dark) and kill the pig)
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ralph
Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!
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jack
No! How could we--kill--it? (talking about killing the beast, simon)
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Marley
I wear the chain I forged in life
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Marley
Marley was dead: to begin with
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Marley
In life my spirit never roamed beyond the narrow limit of our money changing hole
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Marley
No space of regret can make amends for one’s life opportunity missed**!**
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Scrooge (beginning)
Solitary as an oyster
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Scrooge (end)
A merry Christmas to everybody! And happy-new year to all!
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Scrooge (beginning)
If they would rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus’s population
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Scrooge (beginning)
Are there no prisons … workhouses?
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Scrooge (end)
“I don’t know what to do!” Cried Scrooge, laughing and crying in the same breath … “I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel.
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Scrooge (beginning)
Bah. humbug.
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Belle
I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one
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Belle
May you be happy in the life you have chosen
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Belle
Another idle has displaced… a golden one
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What are properties of the gothic
- dark atmosphere - isolated egotistical main character - Transgression (violating social and moral laws)
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Witches
Where shall we three meet again, in thunder lightning in or in rain
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Witches
- Fair is foul and foul is fair hover through the fog and the filthy air
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Witches
- Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth (act 4)
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Witches
Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great burnham woe to high dunsaname hill shall come against him
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Macbeth
no spur to prick the side of my intent only vaulting ambition
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Macbeth
False face must hide what false false heart doth know
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Macbeth
Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me touch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still act 2
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Lady Macbeth
Take my milk for gall you murdering ministers (act 1)
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Lady Macbeth
Like like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t (act 1)
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Lady Macbeth
Unsex me here spirits, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty
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Macbeth
Never sag with doubt nor shake with fear (act 5)
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Eng: quotes for London or ozy
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Eng: make context for poems
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Eng: context for charge of the light brigade
- it is about a battle where the cavalry are sent into a valley on misconstrued orders to die
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Eng: context for exposure
- the pies fought and dies in the war and his poems were published after - first hand experience of what he is talking about - he tried to show the truth of the frontline to people back home
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Eng: context for remains
- talks about the ptsd of killing someone that may be innocent (or just killing at all) - the nightmares and panic attacks ptsd causes
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Eng: context for kamikaze
- about a kamikaze pilot who returned, a great disgrace for himself and his family - the poet suggests that it would be better for the Lito to die, is this right
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Eng: context for London
- set during a time in England of great poverty - William Blake wanted to send a message to the government of the time - it is less about the use than the abuse of power - during this time there was a revolution in France - there was great power of the church

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