English - Module B - Futility techniques Flashcards
1
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Futility
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Foreshadow
2
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2.
Move him into the sun
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present tense imperatives and dramatic immediacy
3
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3.
Gently it’s touch woke him once
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Personification
4
Q
4.
At Home
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Assonance
5
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5.
Whispering of fields unsown
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personification
6
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6.
Always it woke him, even in France
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personification and expresses dubiety
7
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7.
‘Whispering’, ‘unsown’, ‘snow’, ‘rouse’ and ‘sun’
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Sibilance
8
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9.
Think how it wakes the seed
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tonal shift
metaphorical links
9
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9.
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star
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Allusion
Biblical Reference
10
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10.
Full-nerved–still warm–too hard to stir?
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Rhetorical Question 1
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11.
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
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Rhetorical Question 2
12
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O what made fatuous sunbeams toil–To break earth’s sleep at all?
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Rhetroical Question 3
