Quotations Flashcards

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3 quotations from ozymandias and explain them

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  1. “two vast and trunkless legs of stone”
    - statue is huge but incomplete, metaphor for loss of power
  2. “sneer of cold command”
    - he was an arrogant and harsh ruler
  3. “my name is ozymandias - king of kings”
    - biblical-style arrogance, he sees himself more superior to others
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3 quotations from London

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  1. “I wander through each chartered street”
    - chartered means owned, even the streets and controlled showing loss of freedom
  2. “marks of weakness, marks of woe”
    - repetition of “marks” emphasises how suffering is visible, everyone is affected
  3. “black’ning church”
    - the church should help people but its ‘black’ning’ - a symbol of corruption and hypocrisy
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3 quotations from the prelude

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  1. “one summer evening (led by her)
    - personifying nature as a women, romantic ideas of harmony between man and nature
  2. “act of stealth”
    - early signs guilt, the pleasure of rebellion mixed with unease foreshadowing punishment
  3. “trouble to my dreams”
    - metaphor, the experience haunts him nature has permanently altered his understanding
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3 quotations from my last duchess

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  1. “thats my last duchess”
    - possessive and controlling towards her
  2. “in speech - (which I have not)”
    - accidentally reveals his weakness, not a good speaker
  3. “I gave commands”
    - didn’t kill her himself, he gave commands
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3 quotations from the charge of the light brigade

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  1. “valley of death”
    - one way journey, death is inevitable
  2. “rode the 6 hundred”
    - repetition shows bravery and heroism of the soldiers
  3. “mouth of hell”
    - guaranteed death, sabres are not a match to guns
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3 quotations from exposure

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  1. “flowing flakes that flock”
    - fricative, mimics artillery
  2. “misery of dawn”
    - oxymoron, contrast of new and monotony, everyday feels the same
  3. “for love of God seems dying”
    - losing their faith, God isn’t on their side
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3 quotations from storm on the island

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  1. “exploding comfortably”
    - oxymoron, safety vs fear
  2. “space is a salvo”
    - military language
  3. “like a tame cat”
    - someone or something you know turned against you, simile
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3 quotations from bayonet charge

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  1. “hot khaki, his sweat heavy”
    - “h” imitates the heavy breathing as he runs
  2. “bullets smacking the belly out of the air”
    - violent imagery and onomatopoeia describes the sound and impacts of the shots
  3. “crawled in a threshing circle”
    - distressing image of an out of control movement, “threshing circle” is an agricultural term symbolising that nature is affected by war
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3 quotations from remains

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  1. “probably armed, possibly not”
    - modal verbs, assumption more likely to be that not, probability, colloquial
  2. “as it rips through his life.”
    - caesura slows the pace, brutal, emphasises impact
  3. “but I blink”
    - memory, PTSD, psychological impact
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colloquial meaning

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informal

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2 quotations from poppies

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  1. “the world overflowing like a treasure chest”
    - simile, mother imagines how sons excitement, shows hope and possibility
  2. “I traced the inscriptions on the war memorial”
    - suggests her sons name is one their, grief and remembrance
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2 quotations from tissue

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  1. “paper thinned by age or touching”
    - paper is fragile like human life
  2. “let the daylight break through”
    - metaphor, daylight represents clarity, truth and freedom. we should allow more openness and honesty in the world
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whats the main message in tissue

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you are the architect of your own life

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2 quotations from the emigree

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  1. “my shadow falls as evidence of sunlight”
    - juxtaposition, every bad part of her life is connected by positive memories
  2. “I am branded by an impression of sunlight”
    - metaphor, branded suggests permanent, sunlight suggests warmth and hope
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