english-power and conflict unfinished Flashcards
Tissue Quotes
’ smoothed and stroked’
fall away in a sigh’
‘like paper kite’
imagery of types of paper
assonance and alliteration
kamikaze quotes
quotes-
‘green blue translucent sea’
‘flashing silver as their bellies’
‘pearl grey pebbles’
-metaphors and simile’s create vivid imagery
Storm on the island quotes
‘we are prepared : we build our houses’
‘exploding comfortably’
‘like a tame cat gone savage’
‘it is a huge nothing that we fear’
blank verse
assonance intensifies as the storm gets harsher
extended metaphor of a military attack
Exposure quotes
‘but nothing happens’
‘silence sentries whisper curious nervous’
‘our brains ache in merciless iced east winds’
regular rhyme scheme- half rhyms ABBAC rhymes are jarring and uncomfortable
the emigree quotes
’ sunlight//
‘docile as paper
‘like as a hollow doll’
soliloguy
longer lyrical sentances represent her love for her country
metaphors are used to explore different types of isolation
Ozymandias quotes
‘kings of kings’
‘my name is ozymandias’
‘vast and trunkless’
‘half and sunk’
sonnet
iambic pentameter
oxymoron highlights destruction
war photgrapher quotes
’ as though this were a church//’he a priest preparing to intone a mass’
-a nightmar heat
4 stanza’s 6 lines abbcdd rhyme scheme
- religous imagery shpws he takes his job seriously
poppoes quotes
-like atreasure chest’// like a wishbone’
‘gelled blackthorns of your hair’
‘hoping to hear you playground voice
-dramatic monologue
remains quotes
‘my mates// tosses his guts’
‘rips through//’armed ‘torn apart’
‘blood shadow’
verbs of violence
half rhymes
colloquial language
charge of the light brigade quotes
-‘jaws of death’
-‘rode the six hundred’
-‘storm’d at with shot and shell’#
3rd person official account
- ryhtym of the poem reflects hoof beats
repeitition
personification
checking out me history
‘dem tell me’
bandage up me eye with me own history
refences to his own language
bayonet charge
’ suddenly he awoke and he was running’
‘his terrors touchy dynamite
‘threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame’
london
‘mind forged manacles’
‘blackening church’ appalls’
marks of weakness, marks of woe’
-metaphor- trapped in their own mind
repetition-no one is free
‘blackening’ contradicts the connatations of pure
my last duchess
the extract from the prelude
