QUOTES (Grade 7-9) Flashcards
S1, L2: With…
spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
S1 , L3: The only light is
red and softly glows
S1, L5: a priest preparing…
to intone a mass
S1, L6: What places are mentioned?
Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh.
S1, L6: Short sentence:
All flesh is grass.
S1, L6: Belfast…
Beirut. Phnom Penh.
S1, L6: All flesh is…
grass.
S1, L2: What quote uses sibilance?
Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
S1, L3: How is the light described as?
Red and softly glows
S1, L4/5: Religious reference?
as though this were a church and he
a priest preparing to intone a Mass.
S2, L1: He has..
a job to do.
S2, L1: Short, blunt sentence?
He has a job to do.
S2, L1: Solutions…
slop in trays
S2, L1: Sibilance?
Solutions slop in trays
S2, L2: beneath…
his hands.
S2, L2: 3-word quote that indicates power?
Beneath his hands.
S2, L2/3: Quote indicating discomfort/ emotive language?
Which did not tremble then, though seem to now
S3, L3: Change of settings?
Rural England.
S2, L3: How is “Rural England” described?
Home again.
S2, L4: How is English pain described?
Ordinary pain, which simple weather can dispel.
S2, L6: What does “fields which don’t explode” connect to?
“running children in a nightmare heat”
S3, L1: Short sentence?
Something is happening.
S3, L2: Violent verb?
“faintly start to twist”
S3, L3: What does the photographer remember?
“He remembers the cries of this man’s wife”
S3, L3: How is the man described?
“A half-formed ghost.”
S3, L4/5: what does the photographer seek?
“he sought approval without words to do what someone must”
S3, L6: What does the blood stain into?
“foreign dust.”
S4, L1: How are the photos described?
“A hundred agonies in black and white.”
S4, L2: What will the editor do with the “agonies”?
“Pick out five or six”
S4, L3: Sibilance?
“Sunday’s supplement”
S4, L3/4: Emotive language describing consumers?
The reader’s eyeballs prick with tears
S4, L4: What creates a semantic field of relaxation?
“the bath and pre-lunch beers”
S4, L6: What does the photographer do?
“he earns his living”
How do the consumers OR producers feel?
“they do not care.”
