Module A: Texts In Time Flashcards

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Mourning

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Highly emotive description

Constant and deep grief” repeated in “the most poignant way.

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Frankenstein

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Oh Frankenstein! Generous and self devoted being! What does it avail that I now ask you to pardon me?

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Charlie

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Rhetorical question

How can I move thee? …goodness and compassion

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Angel

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Antithesis biblical allusion

“But I am rather the fallen angel”

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Vanishing

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Metaphor

… But now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror filled my heart

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Enemies

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Negative connotation

Begone… We are enemies

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The devil

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Bleak dystopia setting establishing shot of subordination with dominating skyscrapers and explosions

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Playing

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Tyrell consumed in promethean glory ‘plays god’
Costuming - thick glasses
“A little out of my jurisdiction

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God

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Biblical undertones

  • drives a nail into his hand close up shot
  • release of dove low angle shot
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Daria

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Superlative
Miserable beyond all living things
Comparative imagery
Everywhere I see bliss

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Lifting

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Visual imagery

“Yellow skin scarcely covered the work of his muscles and arteries”

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Prometheus

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Recurring mythical allusions to Prometheus

How dangerous is the squire net of knowledge

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The ancient mariner

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Inter textual reference to Coleridge’s “the ancient mariner”

Shall kill no albatross… Or if I should come back… As woeful as the ancient mariner

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Searching

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Visual and tactile imagery

I shall no longer see the sun or stars, or feel the winds play on my cheeks

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Friend

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Dualastic sentence

I was benevolent… Misery made a friend

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Donald trump

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Commerce is our goal here, more human than human

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Experimenting

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She is an experiment nothing more

You’re quite a prize

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Pathetic Fallacy

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Pathetic fallacy

Dark city lit only by forks of lightning and flames

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Unicorns

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Unicorn day dream

Origami unicorn gaff leaves at deckhands apartment

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Intertextualising

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Inter textual reference to Descartes

“I think therefore I am”

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Retirement

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Euphemistic scrolling

This was not called execution. It was called retirement.

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juanita phillips

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Central motif - seeing is believing

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe

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Pouring

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All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die

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Unicorns

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It’s too bad she won’t live but then again who does?