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The mosquito Flashcards

1
Q

Metaphor used?

A

Pathetic fallacy

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2
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What is pathetic fallacy

A

Giving human attributes/emotions to nonhuman things

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3
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High legs of mosquito

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Ego, royalty

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4
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Weigh no more than air as you alight upoun me, you phantom

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Weightless

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5
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What did the woman in Venice call the mosquito?

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Winged Victory

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6
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Turn your head towards your tail and smile

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Shows cunningness

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7
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So much devilery into that translucent phantom corpus

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Fraility

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8
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What does the poet keep calling the mosquito

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Queer- odd; strange

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9
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Queer, with your thin wings and streaming legs..a nothingness.

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Weightless flyer

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10
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Your (..) aura, prowling and casting a numbness on my mind

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EVIL aura

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11
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This is your trick, to deaden my attention in your direction

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Magic powers attributed; invisibility, anaesthesia

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12
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In circles and evasions, enveloping me, Winged Victory

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Evasive; prowling like predator

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13
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I hate the way you lurch off sideways into air
Having read my thoughts against you

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Mind reading awareness

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14
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You speck, dull clot of air

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Smallness of body

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15
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Second part of poem is

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A game of unawares between Man and Mosquito

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16
Q

Trump card of mosquito

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It’s trumpet like noise

17
Q

But it sounds so amazingly like a slogan, as you snatch my scalp

A

Ego implied( proud of the noise it makes)

18
Q

Obscenely ecstasied; sucking live blood, My blood.

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Losing focus- happiness in sucking blood- Obscene

19
Q

You stagger

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After drinking too much blood

20
Q

Only your accursed hairy fraility, your own imponderable weightlessness Saves you

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Mosquito saved by its attributes as it sweeps away on a gust

21
Q

Away with a paen of derision

A

Mockery

22
Q

Am I not mosquito enough to out mosquito you?

A

Suspense whether man loses the game

23
Q

Has killed and smeared the mosquito into nothingness

A

No, Man wins!

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