William Blake Flashcards
1
Q
Introduction to songs of innocence features?
A
- regular rhythm
- 5 stanzas, quatrains
- ballad form
- dialogue structure
- ABAB ABCB ABCB ABAB ABCB
- lexical repetition of piping, pipe and piped
- direct speech
- lexical field of nature and religion
- repetition of happy and hear
- rural setting
- positive cheerful tone
- traditional references
- references to God
- metaphor
- oxymoron
2
Q
The Echoing Green (Innocence) features?
A
- 3 stanzas, 10 lines each
- pathetic fallacy
- regular rhythm
- rhyming couplets
- personification
- positive words
- representation of beauty
- references to ageing
- negative words
- themes on auditory imagery, maturity and death
- positive tone which becomes more negative
- rural setting
- lexical field of nature
- death symbolism
3
Q
The Nurses Song (innocence) features?
A
- irregular rhythm
- informal lexis
- 4 stanzas, quatrains
- dialogue structure
- ABCB
- positive tone
- lexical patterning of nature and childhood
- contrasting and similar lines with experience
- internal rhymes
- hyperbole
- triplet
- themes of childhood, innocence and fun
- syntactic parallelism
- direct speech
4
Q
The Nurses Song (Experience) features?
A
- irregular rhythm
- 2 stanzas, quatrains
- informal lexis
- ABCB
- negative, jealous tone
- similar and different lines with experience
- lexical patterning of nature
- themes of deception
- antithesis
- internal rhymes
- metaphor for jealousy
5
Q
The Chimney Sweeper (Innocence) features?
A
- irregular rhythm
- 6 stanzas, quatrains
- narrative structure
- lexical patterning of death and religion
- rhyming couplets
- repetition
- internal rhymes
- alliteration
- listing
- abstract nouns
- antithesis
- themes of death, childhood and life after death
- first person to third person
- personal pronouns
- negative tone
6
Q
The Chimney Sweeper (Experience) features?
A
- 3 stanzas, quatrains
- narrative structure
- regular rhythm
- repetition
- hollow tone
- rhetorical question
- abstract nouns
- juxtaposition
- exclamative
- direct speech
- triplet
- adult and child speaker
- lots of overlap with innocence
- religious imagery
- themes of childhood, death and job impact
- AABB ABAB ABAB
7
Q
The Clod and the Pebble (experience) features?
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- 3 stanzas, quatrains
- irregular rhyme scheme
- archaic language
- positive to negative to positive
- personification
- stanzas 1 and 3 are contrast
- religious imagery
- inverted repetition
- abstract nouns
- antithesis
- has a definition of love
- ABAB ABCB ABAC
8
Q
Holy Thursday (innocence) features?
A
- 3 stanzas, quatrains
- harmonious tone
- march like rhythm
- hymn like
- archaic language
- Blake is the narrator
- deictic reference
- past and present
- religious connotations
- themes of childhood and religion
- direct address
- juxtaposition
- connotations of innocence
- metaphor
- simile
- triplet
- rhyming couplets
9
Q
Holy Thursday (experience) features?
A
- 4 stanzas, quatrains
- narrative structure
- regular rhythm
- Blake as speaker
- interrogative
- personification
- exclamative
- hyperbole
- alliteration
- archaic language
- has punctuation
- repetition
- monosyllabic lexis
- declarative
- antithesis
- negative and positive connotations
- rhetorical question
- ABAB ABCD ABCB ABCB
10
Q
London (experience) features?
A
- 4 stanzas, quatrains
- ballad form
- regular rhythm
- negative tone
- archaic language
- intertextuality
- metaphorical language
- narrative structure
- Blake as speaker
- abstract noun
- deictic references
- alliteration
- oxymoron
- first person pronouns
- present tense
- rhyming couplets
- narrative structure
11
Q
The lamb (innocence) features?
A
- 2 stanzas
- regular rhythm
- impatient tone
- nursery rhyme like
- rhetorical question
- archaic pronouns
- repetition
- religious connotations
- lexical field of Christianity
- repeated imperative
- third person pronouns
- assonance
- soft alliteration
- archaic language
- direct address
- rhyming couplets
12
Q
The Tyger (experience) features?
A
- 6 stanzas, quatrains
- monologue structure
- powerful imagery
- metaphorical language
- modal verb
- oxymoron
- rhetorical question
- personification
- archaic language
- archaic second person pronouns
- stanza 1 and 6 the same except one word
- dynamic verb
- past tense
- themes of crisis of religion
- tone becomes negative
- regular rhythm
- disbelieving tone
- Blake as speaker
- AABC AABB AABB AABB AABB AABC
13
Q
The Garden of Love (experience) features?
A
- negative tone
- internal rhymes
- 3 stanzas, quatrains
- monosyllabic words
- anaphora
- intertextuality
- past tense
- Blake as speaker
- irregular rhyme scheme
- death symbols
- religious references
- ABCB ABCB ABCD
14
Q
The Divine Image (innocence) features?
A
- 5 stanzas, quatrains
- regular rhythm
- celebratory and harmonious mood
- Blake as speaker
- no regular rhyme scheme
- four critical abstract concepts
- personification
- extended metaphor
- alliteration
- repetition
- modal verbs
- triplet
- archaic language
- title reflects Christian beliefs
- references to religion
- shows awareness of social views
- inclusive first person pronouns
- antithesis
- ABCB ABAB ABCD ABCD ABCB
15
Q
The Human Abstract (experience) features?
A
- 6 stanzas, quatrains
- sombre heavy tone
- irregular rhythm
- rhyming couplets
- Blake as speaker
- personification
- negative imagery
- metaphor
- references to the garden of Eden
- a counterpart to the divine image
- antithesis
- internal rhyme
