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Module C: Plath Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Horse riding

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Second person possessive
Characterisation and metaphor

“Your horse, the white calm stallion”

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Julia Gillard

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Accusatory tone

Shift blame to Plath

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With stirrups

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Symbolism

“Lost your stirrups”

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Monkey

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Image of helplessness - contrast to the restof the poem

“Baby monkey/ using your arm and legs for clinging steel”

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Clinging

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Harsh imagery

“clinging steel”

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Feet

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Shift of tone, metaphor

“Flung yourself off and under my feet to trip me”

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Charles Manson

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Hyperbolic juxtaposition

“Ted Hughes: a talented murderer”

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Reading

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Guardian newspaper

More trusted than Sam

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Bears

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Animalistic and bestial imagery

“Hughes doesn’t speak he growls”

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Assad yawsar

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Metaphor

“An apologetic diatribe concealed in honey”

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Pointing

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Appropriation of a cliche

“Point a finger or two, or eight, at Hughes”

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Nothing

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-

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Daddy

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Metaphor

Your daddy had been aiming you at god

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Shooting

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Enjambment

Ricocheted / the length of your alpha career

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Bullets

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Metaphorical accumulation and sibilance

Gold jacketed, solid silver / nickel tipped

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A witch

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“The right witch doctor tossed you, cooling, one hand to the other”

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Pacing

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Frantic paced

…undeflected… Trajectory perfect

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Bullets

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Extended metaphor

I had been hit

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Mum

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Letters home

October 12, 1962

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Traveling

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Accumulation of sensory images - Ireland

“Emerald sea washing in fingers among green fields … Peat fires that smell like spiced bread

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Holes

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Entrapment and metaphor

When free to write myself out of this hole

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Casper

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“Tear up my last letter … I have had an incredible change of spirit”

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Writing

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Simile

Writing like mad

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Milk

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Metaphor

Recover the milk

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