Y13 SCHOLAR QUOTES Flashcards

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H.O.T.D.C.T.D by Margaret Atwood

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rows of heads
and upturned eyes, imploring
but ready to snap at my ankles,

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Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy

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I took an axe to a willow to see how it wept. I took an axe to a salmon to see how it lept. I took an axe to the wolf as he slept

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In the Artist Studio by Christina Rossetti

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all her loveliness.
A queen in opal or in ruby dress, […]
A saint, an angel […]
Fair as the moon

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Guys like Gaugin by Selina Marsh

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the north, its head, full of rationality […] the south an erogenous zone, corporeal and sexual

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Guys like Gaugin by Selina Marsh P2

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Prepubescent buds

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Helen –> women

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the world is full of women who tell me i should be ashamed of myself

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Helen –> componates

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REDUCE ME TO COMPONENTS AS IN A CLOCK FACTORY

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Cap –> childhood

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At childhoods end

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Cap –> bird

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one bite, dead

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Cap –> saw

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I made quite sure me saw me

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Artist –> face

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he feeds upon her face by day and night

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Artist - meaning

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the same one meaning

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Handmaids tale

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We lived, as usual, by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it. Nothing changes instantly: in a gradually heating bathtub you’d be boiled to death before you knew it.

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V for Vendetta flesh

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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea… and ideas are bulletproof.

James McTeigue

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1984

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War is peace/ freedom is slavery/ irgonary is strnehg - paradox

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To kill a mockingbird

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Atticus - Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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Frankenstein quote

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i am solitary and abhorred

18
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Pride and Prejudice

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A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.

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“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.”

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The Road Not Taken

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Two roads divierged in a woods, and I/ I took the one less traveled by - enjambment

20
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Still I rise

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Just like hope spring high, still I ris

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Half Hanged Mary

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I was hanged for living along/ for having blue eyes and sunburn skin/ tattered skirts, few buttons, a weedy farm in my own name/ and a sure fire cure for warts/ oh yes? and breast - listing

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Farhneit 451

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If you dont want a man unhappy politically don’t give me two sides to a question to worry him, give him one, better yet give him none

23
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The Lightning Theif

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If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.” .

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Harry Potter: Chamber of Secrets

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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”

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Barbie

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“It is literally impossible to be a woman.”

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To kill a mockingbird

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“I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.” - Scout