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English Literature - Short Stories - Essential Quote Memorisation Flashcards

1
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Odour of Chrysanthemums
Give a quote about the family distance in understanding from each other

A

‘Lost in the darkness’

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote about the human soul

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Utter isolation of the human soul

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote about the effect of death on Elizabeth Bates

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Peace sunk heavy on her heart

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is the size of the gap created by death

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Infinite

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a description of death for Walt Bates

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Naive dignity of death

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a quote that uses sibilance and describes how Elizabeth reacts to death

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Silent in seeing

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
With what emotions does Elizabeth view her dead husband

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In fear and shame she looked at his naked body

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What did the mother of Walt learn to do for her son

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Make allowances

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is in the mothers womb

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Ice of fear

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a word describing the mining village at the start

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Forsaken

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
How are the miners introduced

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Miners/shadows

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
How are the chrysanthemums outside the house described?

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Dishevelled pink chrysanthemums

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What is a hellish description of the mining village in the opening

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Flames like red sores licking its ashy sides

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Odour of Chrysanthemums
What are two quotes showing the wife’s disgust with her husband

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Rolling and slink

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Korea
What is a quote about watching a boy die

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Boy tore at his tunic over the heart

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Korea
What is a quote about PTSD

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Furze pods bursting…shocking

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Korea
How many dollars would be given if the boy died in Korean War

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10 000 dollars

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Korea
What is a quote that uses dialect to illustrate difference

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Sounds a big highfalutin to me

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Korea
How is the father described in a moment in the story

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Aggressively

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Korea
What is the quote with swearwords which shows anger

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The smell of shit and piss and the warm fleshy smell of worms

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Chemistry
What is a quote about Ralph taking over

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Ralph now lorded it, tucking into bigger and bigger meals

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Chemistry
What is a quote about the mum not being able to cope

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Quivery look of being about to spill over

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Chemistry
What describes the relationship between the main trio at the start with sibilance

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Sad symmetry

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Chemistry
What did the boy use to understand relationships around him

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Sort of equation

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25
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Chemistry
What links the grandfather and narrator

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Invisible cord

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26
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Chemistry
What can gold also do

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Even gold can change

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27
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Chemistry
What is chemistry the science of

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Chemistry is the science of change

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28
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Chemistry
How is the pond described

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Circular, exposed

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29
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The darkness out there
What describes the way in which Kerry grows up

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His anger eclipsed his acne

30
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The darkness out there
What is the last line

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Everything is not as it appears, oh no.

31
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The darkness out there
What is the darkness and where is it

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The darkness was out there and it was a part of you

32
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The darkness out there
What shows how vague Sandra is about her dreams

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There’d be this man

33
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The darkness out there
What did the cushions do in the cottage

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Cushions oozed

34
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The darkness out there
What is a word describing the garden

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Bedraggled

35
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The darkness out there
What word describes the path

36
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The darkness out there
What words describe the night of the granny’s misdeed

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Filthy wet night

37
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The darkness out there
What is the granny composed of

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Composed of circles

38
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The darkness out there
What do the granny’s eyes do

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Eyes snapped and darted

39
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The darkness out there
What words describe the granny that are all linked to liquids

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Creamy smiling pool

40
Q

My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is a quote about uniformity

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I wear a uniform

41
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is a quote about loss of cultural identity

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Mother, I’ve lost the words you gave me

42
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What two words describe the tie

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Terribly hopeful tie

43
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What did the bird in the coal mine do?

A

Sand and sand until it died

44
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is a quote showing Carla being sarcastic

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Very keen on fairness, we are, here

45
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is a quote that uses repeated b sounds

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Big bright tie blazing

46
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is a quote about ties and flags

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Flag from another country, a better country than the ones either of us lived in

47
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What is the headteacher called

48
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
What did the head to when he met Carla

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He stitched a nice smile on his face

49
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
How do the teachers look at catering staff

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Without really seeing them

50
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My Polish Teacher’s Tie
How tense was Stefan at the end

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He was as tense as a guitar string

51
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What are 4 short sentences about Easington vs England

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Easington heat. Easington sweat. English cold. English ice.

52
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What is the last line

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Claiming, proclaiming, learning the new language in dis here England.

53
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What does learning about their past help the back row in England to do

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They help us assert our right to be

54
Q

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What 3 things are frozen in England

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Frozen places, frozen information, frozen faces.

55
Q

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What is a quote about an aeroplane

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Belly of the gigantic metal bird

56
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What is a quote about strange temperatures going to England

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I am cold in the blazing sunshine

57
Q

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What is a quote using plosive sounds

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Pain of parting traps us

58
Q

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What two words come up allot in the poem

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Cold and smell

59
Q

The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What is a quote about the back row from the start

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Hidden, disposed of, dispatched to the invisibility of the back row

60
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What word describes the state of the words in Hortense’s head

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Trapped words inside my head tumble out

61
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What traps them in the school room

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Fear which has trapped us in this rank, smelly, room

62
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
What does the chatter do in Easington/heartease

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Chatter weaves is it waves? and heaves

63
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The Invisible Mass of the Back Row
How does hortense feel about her new clothes

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Like a stranger, I greet my new clothes

64
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A Family Supper
Who does the father actually resemble

A

Chou En-Lai

65
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A Family Supper
What does the father look like

A

Stony and forbidding

66
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A Family Supper
What kind of blood does the father have

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Pure samurai blood

67
Q

A Family Supper
What season is it

68
Q

A Family Supper
How did Watanabe kill himself in harakiki

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Cut his stomach with a meat knife

69
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A Family Supper
What is the house like

A

Startlingly empty

70
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A Family Supper
What does the father not like about business now

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Delaying with foreigners. Doing things their way.

71
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A Family Supper
What is Fugu poisoning like

A

Hideously painful and almost always fatal

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