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V Revision Flashcards

Paper 2 Section A Revision

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1
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Where did Tony Harrison visit before writing the poem V?

A

Beeston Cemetery

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What was happening in 1984 when Harrison wrote V?

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The Miner’s strike

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In what year was the poem V written?

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1984

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What is the name of a four-line stanza, like the one Harrison uses in V?

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Quatrain

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What rhyme scheme does Harrison use in V?

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ABAB

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What is the function of epigraph in V?

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Highlights the importance of speech and articulation (similar to Marked with D)

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What meter does V use?

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Iambic pentameter

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In the third line of the third stanza of V, Harrison uses what meter instead?

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Trimeter

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9
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Who was Aurthur Scargill?

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A British trade unionist

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10
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Which 18th century poem influence the writing of V?

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Elegy in A County Churchyard by Thomas Gray

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11
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The title V seems to stand for?

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Versus. Harisson explores multiple ideas of divisions throughout the poem.

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12
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In line 3 of V, why is their use of parenthesis ‘now me’ to break up the list of family occupations?

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It symbolises the separation he feels from the employment of his family.

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13
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Who are Byron and Wordsworth in the poem V?

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They are the names of people buried there, not the famous poets.

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14
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Analyse: ‘we’ll all be thrown together if the pit’

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Presents death as equaliser, highliting the pointlessness of class difference compared to the concept of life, death and time.

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In line 13, Harisson describes the mines as ‘galleries’. Why?

A

He gives working-class life a meaningful value that perhaps his peers do not.

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What technique does Harisson use in line 16 to bring to life the descruction of industrial life?

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Onomatopoeia - ‘crushed’ and ‘smashed’

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17
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Wordsworth built church organs, Byron tanned luggage…and knew ____ _____’

A

their place

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18
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____ in on the lowest worked out seam’

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caves

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19
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Employment in manufactuaring fell from 7.1 million in 1979 to what in 1993?

A

4.4 million

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20
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Today, how many mining sites are left in operation?

A

Two

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in 1964, how many coal pits were in operation?

A

545

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22
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In June 1984, 5000 miners faced 8000 police officers in what came to be known as?

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The Battle of Orgreave

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23
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by spraying words on tombstones, pissed on beer’ is similar to the disdain Harrison feels towards the working-class in which other poem?

A

Divisions

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On line 33, how does Harrison use setting to comment on the destruction of the working-class way of life?

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The graveyard (a symbol of death) is ‘above the worked-out pit.’

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What technique does Harrison use by mentioning the ‘graveyard ranges from a bit of Latin’ and then writing ‘CUNT, PISS’?

A

Juxtaposition

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What is the effect of ‘the sprayed master of his flourished tool’?

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It mocks the vandal by comparing to an artist but could also hint at the alter-ego revelation to come.

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What is Harisson critiquing when he states ‘never marked his worked much with at school’?

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The limited nature of working-class education compared to his grammar school one. He focuses on the limited expression again.

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In his list of different vs from line 70, why does he use enjambment to place class on a different stanza?

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Because class v class is the main focus of the poem.

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29
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What contextual event is references on line 77?

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Sir Ian McGregor (National Coal Board) versuse the NUM (National Union of Miners)

30
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Why does Harrison focus on the time he hasn’t spent tending to his parents’ graves from lines 100-103?

A

To show this displacement he feels from the past/from his class.

31
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What is Harrison referring to in line 140?

A

Prince of Wales Colliery, Pontefract.

32
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let the people know who’s _____ their ______’

A

forged/fetters

33
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Why do the advertisements and sings (like ‘the big blue star’) dwarf the lads?

A

It serves as a reminder of the imbalance of power in the world. Advertisments used to sell products that help keep the working-class down or from work.

34
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What is KRUPP?

A

A company that supplied weapons to the Nazis and used slave labour. It continued to trade in the post-war world, highliting corruption.

35
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According to Harisson on line 148/149 what keeps the ‘British ruling class’ up?

A

clandestine, genteel aggro’

36
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What does Harisson mean by ‘clandestine, genteel aggro’?

A

He is referring to the suppresion of threats to the social order such as riots, strikes and protests.

37
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Between lines 153 and 155, the speaker asks 3 questions. Why?

A

It shows his conflicted nature. He fights for the right of the working-class to express themselves but is also disgusted by their chosen form of expression.

38
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When talking about the graffiti sprayed on ‘the pitman’s’ and ‘grocer Broadbent’s’ graves, what is Harrison trying to show?

A

The difference between the meaninful employment of the past versus the juvenile vandalism of the present.

39
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Who seeminly interrupts the speaker?

A

A skinhead

40
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The skinhead actually turns out to be?

A

His alter-ego.

41
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How does Harisson employ bathos to introduce the skinhead?

A

The intelligence of being bi-lingual ‘cri-de-couer’ is undercut by the vulgarity of the speech ‘CUNT’

42
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What is the impact of ‘fucking Greek’?

A

It establishes the difference betweent the two personas due to the humorous mistake made by the skinhead.

43
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How does ‘fucking poetry obscene’ link to one of Harisson’s other poems?

A

It shows a similar disdain for his own work that we see in Working.

44
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Folk on t’fucking dole // ave got about as much scope to ____ // above the shit they’re dumped in’

A

aspire

45
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What really riles a bloke. // Is reading on their graves the ____ they did -‘

A

jobs

46
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been on t’dole all mi life in fucking ______’

A

Leeds

47
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The cunts who lieth ‘ere wor _______’

A

unemployed

48
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Following ‘Byron’ with ‘Tanner’ in line 207 shows what?

A

The importance of work to working-class identity.

49
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Why does the skinhead suggest that ‘poet’ is ‘a crude four letter word’?

A

It shows Harrison’s critique of his employment compared to the manufacturing working-class of the past he admires.

50
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ungrateful cunts like you a ______!’

A

hearing

51
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Why does the skinhead not believe a book is ‘worth a fuck’?

A

Because of his class, he has not been educated well enough to find value in it.

52
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Why does the skinhead swear so much?

A

To emphasise his limited form of expression.

53
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The skinhead’s limited form of expression could link to which other poem in the collection?

A

His father in Marked for D

54
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What attitude is revealed in ‘Don’t fucking bother, cunt! Don’t waste your breath!’?

A

The hopelessness of subject.

55
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What is the meaning behind the skinhead diminishing the speaker’s anecdote about rebelion between lines 226 ad 249?

A

It solidifies the separation between the two. Harrison cannot pretend to be like them.

56
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Don’t talk to me of fucking _______ // the class yer born into any more.’

A

representing

57
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it’s not _____ we need in this class war.’

A

poetry

58
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Which quotation reveals the skinhead is the alter ego?

A

He aerosolled his name. And it was mine.’

59
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What technique does Harrison use to make the revelation of his alter ego more emphatic in ‘He aerosolled his name. And it was mine.’

A

Caesura

60
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What is the skinhead meant to symbolise in the poem?

A

The unpoliticised, alienated young men of the 70s and 80s.

61
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Who is ‘the enemies within’ a reference to?

A

Margaret Thatcher

62
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Why does ‘That UNITED that I’d wished onto the nation’ ‘recede’?

A

The speaker realises the impossibility of stopping the conflict between classes or bringing about loyalty.

63
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What does ‘cavernous hollow’ ‘gravestones lean’ ‘matter of mere time’ ‘all the resters down’ reveal?

A

The fragility of the old way of life that is slowly eroding away.

64
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still years away from being _____ or skin ______.’

A

skald/skin

65
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What does ‘still years away from being skald or skin’ suggest about the boys’ future?

A

Their is hope for them perhaps to not turn into the skinhead. However, only two options reveals there are still limitations on them.

66
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goes by routes that I don’t _______’

A

recognize

67
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House after house ___ _____’

A

FOR SALE

68
Q

What two things did a 1000 ages makes?

A

Coal-bearing seams’ (the old generation) ‘the hand that sprayed CUNT’ (new generation)

69
Q

The ‘Methodist and C of E billboards’ reveal what?

A

Another historical conflict (a versus)

70
Q

The fact that the ‘Methodist and C of E biloards’ have become warehouses reveals what?

A

The death of the past way of life. Religion was often very important to working-class cultures previously.

71
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Between lines 395 and 399 which three conflicts are referenced?

A

The Gulf War, Miner’s Strike and Northern Irish Troubles

72
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Why does the speaker desire one small v to be left on his grave?

A

He is desperate for victory or to be untied forever.

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