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Mod B Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Preludes 1 1

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The winter evening settles down

Iambic tetrameter

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Preludes 1 2

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Smells of steaks in passageways

Sibilance
Olfactory image

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Preludes 1 3

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Six o’clock

Short line

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Preludes 1 4

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Gusty showers … grimy scraps

Alliteration

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Preludes 1 5

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Conscience of a blackened street

Personification

Sordid city

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Preludes 2 1

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Muddy feet … hands that are raising dingy shades

Synecdoche

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Preludes 2 2

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Thousand sordid images

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Preludes 2 3

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Clasped the yellow soles of feet with both soiled hands

Synecdoche

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Preludes 2 4

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The notion of some infinitely gentle infinitely suffering thing

Repetition

Eternity

False epiphany

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Preludes 2 5

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Wipe your hand across your mouth and laugh

Synecdoche

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Rhapsody 1 1

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Twelve o’clock … half past one

Metronomic motif of time

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Rhapsody 1 2

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Held in lunar synthesis … incantations dissolve the floors of memory

Metaphor

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Rhapsody 1 3

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Doors … rooms … corridors

Reduced reflections of the city

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Rhapsody 1 4

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The street lamp muttered, the street lamp said

Anaphora

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Rhapsody 1 5

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Dead geraniums … smallpox cracks

Images

Laforgue

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Rhapsody 2 1

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Border of her dress
Corner of her eye

Synecdoche

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Rhapsody 2 2

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Twists like a crooked pin … a broken spring

Fractured images
Simile

18
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Rhapsody 2 3

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The moon has lost her memory

Personification

19
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Rhapsody 2 4

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Smells of chestnuts in the streets
Females smells in shuttered rooms

Fragmented olfactory images

Transformation of sordid images

20
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Rhapsody 2 5

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The last twist of the knife

Metaphor

21
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Prufrock 1 1

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The evening is spread out against the sky

Romantic image

22
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Prufrock 1 2

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Like a patient etherised upon a table

Clinical simile

Subverts earlier romantic

23
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Prufrock 1 3

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Do I dare disturb the universe?
Do I dare to eat a peach?

Profound vs trivial

Antithetical

24
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Prufrock 1 4

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I grow old … I grow old

Repetition

Lyrical and profound

25
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Prufrock 1 5

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I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled

Trivial

Subverts earlier profundity

Antithetical

26
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Prufrock 2 1

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Butt-ends
Measured … in coffee spoons

Disposable consumer metaphors

27
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Prufrock 2 2

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I am not Prince Hamlet

Self awareness

Subverted literary allusion

28
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Prufrock 2 3

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Head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter

John the Baptist

Subverted biblical allusion

29
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Prufrock 2 4

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Voices dying with a dying fall

Synecdoche

30
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Prufrock 2 5

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Till human voices wake us, and we drown

Metaphor

31
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Hollow men 1 1

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We are the hollow men we are the stuffed men

Allusion to Heart of Darkness and Guy Fawkes

32
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Hollow men 1 2

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Shape without form, shade without colour

Metaphor

Dante’s Ignavi

33
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Hollow men 1 3

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Broken column
Stone images

Fragmented symbols

Idolatrous worship

34
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Hollow men 1 4

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Fading star

Imagery

Dante’s Star = God

35
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Hollow men 1 5

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Prayers to broken stone

Symbolism

36
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Hollow men 2 1

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Here we go round the prickly pear

Subversion of traditional nursery rhyme

Flowers in desert

37
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Hollow men 2 2

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This is the dead land, this is the cactus land

Anaphora

Symbolism, dry

38
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Hollow men 2 3

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Between the idea and the reality… Falls the Shadow

Julius Caesar

Heart of Darkness

39
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Hollow men 2 4

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For Thine is the Kingdom

Fragment of Lord’s Prayer

40
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Hollow men 2 5

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For Thine is, life is, for Thine is the

Fragments as it can’t be finished

Inertia as prayer dissolves

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