The Destruction of Sennacherib Flashcards

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The commander.

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‘The Assyrian’

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Animal imagery.

Savage predator.

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‘Wolf on the fold’

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Royal action colours.

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‘Purple and gold’

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Outfit.

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‘Cohorts’

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Sibilliance.

Impressive army powerful weapons.

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‘Sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea’

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Northern Israel.

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'’Deep Galilee’

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Army is compared to nature.

Killing is natural to them.

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‘Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green’

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AABB rhyme scheme/.

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‘Green’.

‘seen’

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Fierce soldiers killed everything in sight’

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‘Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast.

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The simile contrast the living and the dying.

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‘That host on the morrow lay wither’d and strown.

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Incessant nature of War.

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‘And’
‘And’
‘And’

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Death.

God conquers the mighty animals/

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‘There lay the steed with his nostril all wide’

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In pain and death.

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‘There lay the rider distorted and pale’

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Futility of the poem.

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‘The tents were all silent, the banners alone’

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Unceremonious.

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‘The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown’

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Assyrain capital.

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‘Ashur’

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Incontrast to the silence of the defeated army/.

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‘The windows of Ashur are loud in their wail’

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Women left behind to mourn their husbands.

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‘Baal’

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Respect.

Good manners.

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‘Gentile’

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Simile.

Their power is nothing to the power of God.

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‘Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!’