Poetry 3 quotes per poem (15) complete

Question 1

“Ozymandias” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“sneer of cold command”

“Colossal wreck”

“Vast”, “trunkless”, “stone” And…
“King of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty”

Answer 1

Alliteration, sculptor understood arrogance of the ruler

Semantic fields
1=size and broken
2=power+greatness

Metaphor, representing Ozymandias’s ego, how big it is

Question 2

What are the three quotes for “Ozymandias” and put them in the correct order.

Answer 2

Alliteration = “sneer of cold command”

Semantic fields:
“Vast”, “trunkless”, “stone”
“King of kings: / Look on my works, ye Mighty”

Metaphor = “colossal wreck”

Question 3

“London” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Marks of weakness, marks of woe” And…
“Every” repeated 3 times

“The mind-forged manacles I hear”

“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Answer 3

Repetition, feeling of bleakness and no hope

Alliteration, despair affects everyone and there’s no relief

Metaphor (+Alliteration), people are trapped in every way, even by thoughts and attitudes

Question 4

What are the three quotes for “London” and what order

Answer 4

Repetition:
“Marks of weakness, marks of woe”
“Every” repeated 3 times

Alliteration = “Marks of weakness, marks of woe”

Metaphor (+Alliteration) = “The mind-forged manacles I hear”

Question 5

“Extract from, the Prelude” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Elfin pinnace”

“Upreared it’s head”

“Struck, struck, stature, shape, stars, still, so, seemed”

Answer 5

Personification, mountain personified as an ugly image contrasting with earlier beautiful images

Metaphor, scene seems magical –> fantastical language

Repetition (+Sibilance), creates sinister mood, narrator perceives mountain to be getting bigger

Question 6

What are the three quotes for “Extract from, the Prelude” and what order

Answer 6

Personification = “Upreared it’s head”

Metaphor = “Elfin pinnace”

Repetition (+Sibilance) = “Struck, struck, stature, shape, stars, still, so, seemed”

Question 7

“My Last Duchess” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”

“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”

“That spot of joy”

Answer 7

Repetition, hinting his wife really bothers him.

Major theme he believes his family heritage should be respected. (Could drop in when talking about context.)

Imperative verbs, when using a phrase that could be a potential euphemism for his wife’s death.

Question 8

What are the three quotes for “My Last Duchess” and what order

Answer 8

Repetition = “That spot of joy”

“My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name”

Imperative verbs (+Euphemism) = “I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together”

Question 9

“The Charge of the Light Brigade” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Six hundred”

“Into the valley of Death”

“Volley’d and thunder’d”

Answer 9

Repetition, the last line of each stanza emphasises how the battle went, and how it changed throughout.

Onomatopoeia, to portray the power of the battle.

Metaphor, emphasising the danger the Light Brigade were in.

Question 10

What are the three quotes for “The Charge of the Light Brigade” and what order

Answer 10

Repetition = “Six hundred”

Onomatopoeia = “Volley’d and thunder’d”

Metaphor = “Into the valley of Death”

Question 11

“Exposure” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Flowing flakes that flock”

“But nothing happens.”

“Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

Answer 11

Personification, nature is repeatedly personified making it seem the real enemy in War.

Alliteration, to empahsise the relentlessness of the snow.

Repetition, questioning why they are there, itroduces self-doubt.

Question 12

What are the three quotes for “Exposure” and what order

Answer 12

Personification = “Less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow”

Alliteration = “Flowing flakes that flock”

Repetition = “But nothing happens.”

Question 13

“Storm on the Island” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“It is a huge nothing that we fear”

“Exploding comfortably”

“Blast, pummels, Exploding, strafes, salvo, bombarded”

Answer 13

Semantic field of Warfare suggesting how nature is overpowering humans.

Oxymoron, cleverly juxtaposing feelings of safety and fear

Paradox, contrast between huge nothing - alludes to a key message: THE POWERLESS OF HUMANITY AGAINST THE NATURAL WORLD.

Question 14

What are the three quotes for “Storm on the Island” and what order

Answer 14

Semantic field = “Blast, pummels, Exploding, strafes, salvo, bombarded”

Oxymoron = “Exploding comfortably”

Paradox = “It is a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 15

“Bayonet Charge” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

“Like a man… / Listening between his footfalls for the reason / of his still running.”

“Cold clockwork”

Answer 15

Onomatopoeia (+Simile), leaving the reader with connotations of injury

Alliteration, in this case could suggest how humans are clockwork - and should be next to die

Simile, creates a feeling of sheer terror of war –> suggests there is no rational reason for war.

Question 16

What are the three quotes for “Bayonet Charge” and what order

Answer 16

Onomatopoeia (+Simile) = “He lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm”

Alliteration = “Cold clockwork”

Simile = “Like a man… / Listening between his footfalls for the reason / of his still running.”

Question 17

“Remains” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Probably armed, Possibly not”

“Dug in behind enemy line”

“Rips through his life- / I see broad daylight on the other side”

Answer 17

Repetition (+Plosive sounds), shows that he is replaying the event in his mind hinting inner turmoil + reflecting the way that the killing is repeated in the speaker’s mind.

Metaphor, compares how the memory of bullets ripping through a man’s body to a soldier in a tench.

Hyperbole (+Onomatopoeia), this grotesque exaggerated image emphasises how this sight could stay with him for the rest of his life.

Question 18

What are the three quotes for “Remains” and what order

Answer 18

Repetition (+Plosive sounds) = “Probably armed, Possibly not”

Metaphor = “Dug in behind enemy line”

Hyperbole = “Rips through his life- / I see broad daylight on the other side”

Question 19

“Poppies” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Hoping to hear”

“Released a song bird from it’s cage”

“Like a treasure chest”

Answer 19

Simile, showing words from son’s perspective - sounds excited, but potentially misguided.

Metaphor, connoting her son is like a beautiful caged creature –> how he has been set free.

Alliteration, reader feels sympathy for the mother as she seems very isolated.

Question 20

What are the three quotes for “Poppies” and what order

Answer 20

Simile = “Like a treasure chest”

Metaphor = “Released a song bird from it’s cage”

Alliteration = “Hoping to hear”

Question 21

“War Photographer” four techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“As though this were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass.”

“Tears between bath and pre-lunch beers”

“A hundred agonies in black-and-white”

“Sunday’s supplement”

Answer 21

Simile, to portray religious imagery which shows the seriousness of his work

Emotive metaphor, describes his photos, reader could have sympathy as it seems like a very stressful job.

Assonant ‘e’ sounds, internal rhyme emphasises how quickly these feeling of sympathy go away

Sibilance (+Plosive sounds), frustration these photos don’t feature in the newspaper.

Question 22

What are the four quotes for “War Photographer” and what order

Answer 22

Simile = “As though this were a church and he / a priest preparing to intone a Mass.”

Emotive metaphor = “A hundred agonies in black-and-white”

Assonant ‘e’ sounds = “Tears between bath and pre-lunch beers”

Sibilance (+Plosive sounds) = “Sunday’s supplement”

Question 23

“Tissue” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Might fly our lives like paper kites”

“Pages smoothed and stroked and turned”

“Maps too…”
“The marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks”

Answer 23

Repetition, of “and” suggests pages are treated with respect and affection. –> Gentle verbs

Alliteration, juxtaposing line of the stanza and creates a flowing effect/sense of freedom.

Simile, judging by the rest of the stanza, hints how out lives can be controlled by money.

Question 24

What are the three quotes for “Tissue” and what order

Answer 24

Repetition = “Pages smoothed and stroked and turned”

Alliteration =
“Maps too…”
“The marks that rivers make, roads, railtracks”

Simile = “Might fly our lives like paper kites”

Question 25

“The Emigree” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“I am branded by an impression of sunlight”

“They accuse me”

“As time rolls its tanks / and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”

Answer 25

Repetition (+Juxtaposition), highlighting the final line of the first stanza

Personification, time is the enemy but it can’t affect the speaker’s memories

Repetition, signals her anger towards these tyrants, but also the threat they pose.

Question 26

What are the three quotes for “The Emigree” and what order

Answer 26

Repetition (+Juxtaposition) = “I am branded by an impression of sunlight”

Personification = “As time rolls its tanks / and the frontiers rise between us, close like waves”

Repetition = “They accuse me”

Question 27

“Checking out me History” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“I carving out me own identity”

“Dem tell me”

“Blind me to me own identity”

Answer 27

Repetition, throughout the poem creates a sense of them and us. Emphasising the separateness of the British Education system and himself

Metaphor, not allowing him to see his own identity.

Violent verb, suggesting anger towards the British Education system for being arrogant.

Question 28

What are the three quotes for “Checking out me History” and what order

Answer 28

Repetition = “Dem tell me”

Metaphor = “Blind me to me own identity”

Violent verb = “I carving out me own identity”

Question 29

“Kamikaze” three techniques from these quotes which are in no particular order.

“Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”

“green-blue translucent sea”
“arching in swathes”
“shoals of fishes”
“silver” “swivelled” “sun”

“At the little fishing boats / strung out like bunting”

Answer 29

Metaphorical hyperbole, the reason he was doing this duty. He would go down as a hero to the Japanese.

Simile, this was the turning point. Where the pilot succumbed to the power of nature.

Semantic field, the pilot sees sea life and life begins to flood back to him.

Question 30

What are the three quotes for “Kamikaze” and what order

Answer 30

Metaphor (+Hyperbole) = “Enough fuel for a one-way journey into history”

Simile = “At the little fishing boats / strung out like bunting”

Semantic field:
"green-blue translucent sea"
"arching in swathes"
"shoals of fishes"
"silver" "swivelled" "sun"