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Question 1

Tissue narrative

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This poem explores the theme of humanity through its contemplation of human stories and the interconnectedness of our lives

Question 2

Tissue context

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Human Power and Fragility. “Tissue” is about human power and fragility. The “Tissue” referred to in the title is, at the beginning at least, a reference to paper

Question 3

Tissue structure

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Tissue is a group of cells that have similar structure and that function together as a unit, using lots metaphores

Question 4

Tissue form

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There are 4 basic types of tissue: connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue

Question 5

Tissue language techniques

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Tissue is mainly constructed in unrhymed, irregular quatrains close quatrainA stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four lines

Question 6

Exposure context

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Exposure is about what life was like in the trenches during the First World War. By describing the terrible natural conditions under which the soldiers lived and died

Question 7

Exposure narrative

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Exposure is about what life was like in the trenches during the First World War. By describing the terrible natural conditions under which the soldiers lived and died

Question 8

Exposure structure

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The poem is structured as a series of eight stanzas. of five lines. The last line of each stanza is noticeably shorter and indented which emphasises its importance

Question 9

Exposure form

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The poem is structured as a series of eight stanzas. of five lines

Question 10

Exposure language techniques

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Owen is employing a technique known as half rhyme close half rhymesWhen the final consonants (not vowels) of the final words of lines are the same, but the overall sound is not quite the same

Question 11

Ozymandias narrative

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Shelley opens his poem with the ​detached narrative​of a traveller to distance himself from the political messages of his poem. Shelley uses Ozymandias as an allegory for King George III

Question 12

Ozymandias context

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Shelley opens his poem with the ​detached narrative​of a traveller to distance himself from the political messages of his poem. Shelley uses Ozymandias as an allegory for King George III

Question 13

Ozymandias structure

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The poem is a sonnet and is written in iambic pentameter. Some suggest that the sonnet form has been used to mirror Ozymandias’ egotistical love of himself.

Question 14

Ozymandias form

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The poem is a sonnet and is written in iambic pentameter. Some suggest that the sonnet form has been used to mirror Ozymandias’ egotistical love of himself

Question 15

Ozymandias language techniques

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Sonnet. “Ozymandias” is a sonnet, which is a type of poetic structure. …
Alliteration. Alliteration is the repetition of a sound or letter at the beginning of multiple words in a sentence or paragraph. …
Apostrophe
Assonance
Enjambment

Question 16

London narrative

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The poem centres from a ​first-person perspective ​on an annoymous speaker (who could be assumed to be Blake) walking through London, and commenting on the filfh and currouption he sees

Question 17

London form

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The stanzas consist of alternating rhymes and are written in the iambic tetrameter

Question 18

Lodon structure

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London’ by William Blake is a four stanza poem that is separated into sets of four lines, known as quatrains

Question 19

London form

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These quatrains follow a rhyme scheme of ABAB throughout.

Question 20

London language techniques

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allusion, alliteration, anaphora, metaphor, oxymoron, and symbolism

Question 21

My last duchess narrative

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My Last Duchess’ is written in the form of a first person narration, of an arrogant and callous Duke who tours an unknown guest around his gallery

Question 22

My last duchess context

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The poem is set in Renaissance Italy and is narrated by the Duke of Ferrara, who is showing a painting of his late wife, the Duchess, to a visitor

Question 23

My last duchess structure

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Structure. ‘My Last Duchess’ is a dramatic monologue which is structured as one lengthy stanza (continuous form). This one stanza is 56 lines long. The poem consists of the Duke’s dramatic monologue addressed to an unnamed envoy

Question 24

My last duchess form

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Form and structure The poem is a dramatic monologue. The Duke dominants the conversation and the messenger does not speak

Question 25

My last duchess techniques

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rhymed couplets (AABB) and iambic pentameter
simile

Question 26

The charge of the light brigade narrative

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The Charge of the Light Brigade” is an 1854 narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson about the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava during the Crimean War.

Question 27

The charge of the light brigade context

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The charge took place at the Battle of Balaclava, during Britain’s war with Russia in the Crimea in the mid 19th century.

Question 28

Charge of the light brigade structure

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The Charge of the Light Brigade” consists of six stanzas of varying length. Many of the lines are written in dactylic dimeter, which means there are six syllables in each line, with two stressed syllables and four unstressed syllables

Question 29

The charge of the light brigade form

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The Charge of the Light Brigade” consists of six stanzas of varying length

Question 30

The charge of the light brigade language techniques

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alliteration, a strong rhyme and rhythm, as well as personification and onomatopoeia to help put his views across.

Question 31

Remains narrative

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describes a soldier’s experience of killing a man while stationed in a war zone

Question 32

Remains contect

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Remains is set in Basra in the Iraq, which was the scene of the Battle of Basra in 2003.

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Remains structure

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The first seven stanzas are in largely unrhymed quatrains close quatrainA stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four linesThe first seven stanzas are in largely unrhymed quatrains close quatrainA stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four lines

Question 34

Remains form

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The first seven stanzas are in largely unrhymed quatrains close quatrainA stanza in poetry consisting of a group of four lines

Question 35

Remains language techniques

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Slang such as ‘mates’ and colloquial. language (such as ‘legs it’) is used throughout.

Question 36

Emigree narrative

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The poem is about somebody who had to leave their country as a child to be safe

Question 37

Emigree context

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They are looking back fondly whilst lamenting the discrimination they experience in their new country

Question 38

Emigree structure

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The poem is composed of three stanzas close stanzaLines of poetry that make up a section; a verse.

Question 39

Emigree form

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three stanzas close stanzaLines of poetry that make up a section; a versethree stanzas close stanzaLines of poetry that make up a section; a verse

Question 40

Emigree languagw techniques

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simile (and metaphor) perhaps suggests the way in which the speaker is shaping her memories and making up her own narrative about her relationship with her homeland

Question 41

The sructure of bayonet charge

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Form and structure Hughes uses a three stanza structure in order to describe the soldier’s charge.

Question 42

Language techs of bayonet charge

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Alliteration is a prominent device in “Bayonet Charge.” Throughout the poem, groups of shared sounds are used to help the poem convey a violent atmosphere,

Question 43

Bayonet charge context

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in Bayonet Charge Hughes wanted to highlight the brutality of trench warfare as a tribute to his father’s suffering as well as a way to memorialize war as a warning for future generations

Question 44

Narrative of bayonet charge

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This poem tries to step inside the body and mind of a soldier carrying out one of the most terrifying acts of this or any war: charging straight into rifle fire with the aim of killing enemy soldiers