Lit Mock Quotes Flashcards
Exposure
Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
Exposure
Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous
- Sibilance creates hissing sound of the wind
Exposure
Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles
Eng: kamikaze
at the little fishing boats
strung out like bunting
on a green-blue translucent sea
- emphasises the temptation of life below
Eng: kamikaze
And though he came back
Leaves the man’s name out of it, because he came back in shame
Eng: kamikaze
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
Eng: remains
His blood-shadow stays on the street
The metaphor emphasises how the events will always stain the place, blood connotes death and lingering rememberance
Eng remains
I see every round as it rips through his life –
I see broad daylight on the other side
Graphic hyperbole, suggests ptsd
Eng: remains
and he’s probably armed, and possibly not.
This is repeated across the text, suggests regret and guilt
Eng: charge of the light brigade
His terror’s touchy dynamite
Eng: charge of the light brigade
Was he the hand pointing that second?
Change of pace, almost slow motion
Eng: charge of the light brigade
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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Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds that knife us
Exposure
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Worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous
Exposure
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Watching, we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire.
Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles
Exposure
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at the little fishing boats
strung out like bunting
on a green-blue translucent sea
Kamikaze
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And though he came back
Kamikaze
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like a huge flag waved first one way
then the other in a figure of eight
Kamikaze
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His blood-shadow stays on the street
Remains
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I see every round as it rips through his life –
I see broad daylight on the other side
Remains
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and he’s probably armed, and possibly not.
Remains
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His terror’s touchy dynamite
Charge of the light brigatde
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Was he the hand pointing that second?
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
Charge of the light brigade
ralph
I’m chief. I’ll go. Don’t argue.
ralph
Ralph, too, was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh
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
jack
I ought to be chief…because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.
jack
Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt!
jack
Sharpen a stick at both ends.
piggy
life… is scientific
piggy
Give me my specs!
piggy
What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?
simon
Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us.
simon
You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway.
(why does Simon say you and not we)
simon
We used [Piggy’s] specs…He helped that way.
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)
roger
roger remained, watching the littluns.
roger
We’ve got plenty of time! (To stay (after dark) and kill the pig)
ralph
Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!
jack
No! How could we–kill–it?
(talking about killing the beast, simon)
