quotes Flashcards
The destruction of Sennacherib
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Simile/ animalistic imagery - “the Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold”
Sibilance - “ and the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea”
imagery- “and their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still”
Rhyme - aa/bb
The prelude
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Personal account- “one summer evening(led by her) I found”
Negative semantic - “dim”, “unknown”, “darkness”, “solitude” and “desertion”
Imagery- “i dipped my oars into the silent lake”
Simile- “Went heaving through the water like a swan”
The man he killed
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rhyme - ab/ab
Repetition- “ i shot him dead because/ because”
Contrasting ideas
Cousin kate
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Repetition/ rhetorical question- “why did a great lord find me out”
simile-“He changed me like a glove”
Contrasting ideas- “my shame, my pride”
Half-caste
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Direct address/ command/ repetition- “explain yuself”
Contrasting ideas- “light an shadow”
Replicates his own speech pattern-”an de whole of yu eye”
Enjambment
Irregular stanza form
Exposure
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Personification- “like twitching agonies of men among its brambles”
Personification- “iced east winds that knive us…”
Semantic field- “silence, sentries, whisper, curious, nervous”
Onomatopoeia- “the flickering gunnery rumbles”
Imagery- “ranks of grey”
The charge of the light brigade
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imagery/ foreshadowing- “into the valley of death”
Animalistic imagery- “into the jaws of death”
Sibilance- “storm’d at with shot and shell”
Imagery -” flash’d all their sabres bare”
Death is personified
Imagery - “back from the mouth of hell”
Catrin
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Rhyme- is not regular
Imagery/metaphor- “red rope of love”
Metaphor- “in the glass tank clouded with feelings”
imagery - “ to be two, to be ourselves”
Belfast confetti
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Metaphor/ imagery - “itself- an asterisk on the map”
Rhetorical question- “why can’t i escape?”
imagery/ metaphor- “it was raining exclamation marks”
Metaphor- “blocked with stops and colons”
The class game
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Repetition -”how can you tell what class i’m from?”
Imagery - “have i a label on me head,and another on me bum?”
Contrasting ideas- “how can you tell what class i’m from” and “and i’m proud of the class that i come”
What were they like?
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Punctuation -“there were no more buds)”
Simple sentence- “sir, laughter is bitter to burned mouth”
Contrasting imagery - “when peaceful clouds were reflected in the paddies” and “when bombs smashed the mirrors”
