Literature - Poems Flashcards
1
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Do not go gentle into that good night
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- Personal pronouns
- Life is precious
- Alliteration
- Parenthesis
- Proud of father
- Irregular rhyme scheme
- Loving atmosphere
2
Q
Half Caste
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- Short lines
- Colloquial language
- Analogies
- Metaphors
- Phonetic spelling
- No punctuation
- No formal rhyme scheme
3
Q
Search for my tongue
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- Repetition
- Exaggeration
- Visual imagery
- Identity
- Structured in three parts
- Extended metaphor
- Metaphor
4
Q
Half past two
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- Fairy tale
- Adults ruled by time
- Capitalisation
- Compound words
- Enjambment
- Personification
5
Q
Poem at 39
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- Repetition
- Semantic field of money
- Metaphors
- Monosyllabic language
- Regret
- Free verse
- Parallelism
6
Q
Hide and seek
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- Caesura
- Childhood innocence
- Alliteration
- Vivid imagery
- Extended metaphor
- Sense of triumph
7
Q
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
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- Vivid description of beauty
- Archaic language
- Unimportance of women
- Repetition
- Anaphora
- Symbolism
8
Q
My Last Duchess
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- Hyperbole
- Euphemisms
- Repetition
- Monologue
- Assonance
- Iambic pentameter
- Irony
9
Q
War Photographer
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- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Simile
- Alliteration
- Imagery
- Caesura
10
Q
Piano
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- Metaphor
- Onomatopoeia
- Vivid imagery
- End rhyme
- Symbolism
- Extended metaphor
- Emotions heightened
11
Q
Remember
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- Petrarchan sonnet
- Repetition
- Enjambment
- Anaphora
- Regular rhyme
- Metaphors
12
Q
If
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- Personification
- Enjambment
- Caesura
- Capitalisation
- Symbolism
- Regular rhyme
13
Q
Prayer before birth
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- Refrain
- Repetition
- Assonance
- Metaphor
- Personification
- Sibilance
- Juxtaposition
14
Q
Blessing
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- Builds to climax
- Everyday life is harsh
- Contrast
- Onomatopoeia
- Alliteration
- Precious metal imagery
- Sense of wonder
15
Q
Sonnet 116
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- Shakespearean sonnet
- Personification
- Parallelism
- Enjambment
- Rhyming couplet
- Metaphors
- Nautical imagery
