QUOTATIONS PRACTICE Flashcards
A War Photographer quotation with a biblical reference
“All flesh is grass”
A War Photographer quotation with emotive imagery and connatations to hell
“running children in a nightmare heat”
A War Photographer quotation to do with the lasting impact of war
“blood stained into foreign dust” / links to Remains “blood shadow”
A War Photographer quotation that could refer to readers or the wider world
“he earns a living and they do not care”
A War Photographer quotation to do with the sense of duty
“He has a job to do”
A Ozymandious quotation to do with the king being ignorant
“sneer of cold command”
A Ozymandious quotation to do with highlighting the kings commanding tone
“Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair.” / ironic he is telling other “mighty” kings to admire the size of his statue and “despair” howver they should really despair because power is only temporary
A Ozymandious quotation to do with the desert lasting longer than the statue
“The lone and level sands stretch far away”
An Exposure quotation to do with the theme of PTSD
“Our brains ache” / semantic field of weather: weather is enemy
An Exposure quotation to do with the personification of the weather
“the merciless iced east winds that knive is…” / siblilance (cutting/slicing sound of wind); ellipsis (never ending)
An Exposure quotation to do with collective suffering
“we” and “our”
An Exposure quotation that contains personification
“mad gusts tugging on the wire”
A Storm on the Island quotation to do with the island being a lonely place
“Nor are there trees which might prove company”
A Storm on the Island quotation with violent verbs describing the storm
“pummels”, “exploding”, “spits”
A Storm on the Island quotation containing an oxymoron to contrast fear
“Exploding comfortably”
