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86 Cards in this Set
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Charge of the Light Brigade ________ the Light Brigade |
Honour Patriotic |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade _______ they rode |
Boldly Patriotic - honour |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade ________ of death |
Jaws Personification |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade _________ of Hell |
Mouth Personification |
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The Charge of the Light Brigade ________ six hundred |
Noble Glorifying failure |
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Exposure Slowly our _______ drag home |
Ghosts Assonance of oh sound shows weariness |
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Exposure But ________ happens |
Nothing Repetition- waiting for something to happen |
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Exposure __________ iced east winds that knive us |
Merciless Sibilance of icy wind Wind is enemy |
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Exposure Men among its __________ |
Brambles Symbolises barbed wire |
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Exposure Poignant misery or _____ |
Dawn Oxymoron to show low morale of soldiers Poignant - sad upon sad |
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Bayonet Charge Yellow ______ |
Hare Cowardliness |
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Bayonet Charge Sweating like _______ iron |
Molten Simile for being shot |
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Bayonet Charge King, Honour, Human Dignity, ________ |
Etcetera Not important to him, gives him no comfort |
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Bayonet Charge __________ tear |
Patriotic Metaphor |
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Bayonet Charge Bullets smacking the ______ out of the air |
Belly Alliteration, personification |
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Remains Probably armed, _______ not |
Possibly Repetition, juxtaposition, doubt, guilt, hesitation |
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Remains ________ his guts back into his cart |
Tosses Dehumanising body, lack of emotion |
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Remains He’s here in my head when I ______ my eyes |
Close Shell shock/ PTSD |
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Remains Blood-Shadow stays on the _______ |
Street Blood-Shadow - Haunts the speaker and stays in his mind Stays… Streets - Long vowel sounds to show the long lasting imprint on the speaker |
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Remains His bloody _____ in my bloody hands |
Life Repetition, guilt, blames himself Allusion to Macbeth |
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Poppies __________ Sunday |
Armistice Flashback |
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Poppies Leaned against it like a ________ |
Wishbone So much stress her heart is breaking Heart breaking from possibly dead son |
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Poppies Playground voice catching on the ______ |
Wind Metaphor for childhood innocence Missing him as a child Ghost |
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Poppies ____________ stitch |
Ornamental Her pain |
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Poppies Released a songbird from it’s _____ |
Cage Cage- Room Songbird- Child Caging her emotions |
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War Photographer Spools of suffering set out in ______ rows |
Ordered Rows of pictures on film Rows of dead soldiers in graves |
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War Photographer Belfast. Beirut. Phnom ______. |
Penh Plosive sounds of gun shots |
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War Photographer Features faintly start to ______ before his eyes |
Twist Pictures being formed Victims coming back at him- PTSD |
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War Photographer He has a ____ to do |
Job Ignore feelings “He earns is livings” |
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War Photographer Only light is red and ______ glows |
Softly Red- blood Softly- contrasts to the tragedy on the photos |
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The Emigrée There once was a _______ |
Country Sounds like a fairytale- child-like tone which shows her innocent love for the country |
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The Emigrée Emigrée meaning |
Displaced person |
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The Emigrée It tastes of _________ |
Sunlight Synaesthesia Every paragraph ends in sunlight which is a positive note |
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The Emigrée It may be at ____ |
War Lost her city due to the chaos of war |
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The Emigrée I comb its hair and love its _______ eyes |
Shining Nurtures her memories like a mother |
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Checking out me History _____ tell me |
Dem Dialect shows his identity Plosive sound shows conflict between white and world history Harsh sound shows anger |
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Checking out me History I ________ out me identity |
Carving Carving- metaphor shows he has a lack of his own history so he is crafting it Identity- his identity is tied up in history |
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Checking out me History Italics is _______ history Non-italics is ________ history |
Black White |
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Checking out me History Florence Nightingale… Robin Hood… Mary _______ |
Seacole Juxtaposition of characters shows the inconsistencies of taught history |
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Checking out me History Mary Seacole From _________ |
Jamaica Enjambment shows the history of them shouldn’t have stopped being taught, it should have continued |
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Kamikaze Enjambement shows: |
A continuing story, and how his family are continuing to ignore her |
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Kamikaze No longer the _______ we loved |
Father He has brought shame on the family by his cowardness |
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Kamikaze Which had been the better way to _____ |
Die Either old age without love or young age with love and honour |
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Kamikaze ________ how he and his brothers Loose silver of _______ |
Remembered Whitebait He remembered his childhood and beautiful nature so he didn’t want to leave this world |
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Kamikaze One-way journey into ________ |
History Metaphor- He was not expected to come back from this mission, but to die for his country and be remembered honourably for it |
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Ozymandias _________ legs of stone |
Trunkless Just legs left so there is a lack of body which is a lack of heart |
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Ozymandias Nothing beside ________ |
Remains Irony- he thinks he is powerful |
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Ozymandias King of _______ |
Kings Shows power, biblical reference |
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Ozymandias Cold __________ |
Command Alliteration of ‘c’ sound shows his anger and the long sounds shows his harsh orders he give |
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Ozymandias Tell that its ________ well those passions read |
Sculptor Ozymandias was so apparently desperate to be remembered, yet it is the sculptor that is praised and admired for managing to capture the arrogant looks of him |
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London Marks of weakness, marks of _____ |
Woe Weakness and woe are semantic fields or suffering Alliteration and repetition for constant crying |
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London Marriage _______ |
Hearse Oxymoron-shows the contradiction between happy and sad |
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London _____________ church |
Black’ning Juxtaposition- pollution or the darkness of the soul |
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London Mind-forged _______ |
Manacles Almost a tongue twister which is like their minds Trapped in their minds |
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London Repetition of every and ____ |
Cry Shows constant suffering |
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The Prelude Led by ______ |
Her Her meaning Mother Nature |
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The Prelude Of mountain-________ did my boat move. |
Echoes The echoes are personified and have a voice that seems to follow the poet in what will clearly be some sort of spiritual experience. |
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The Prelude ________ ridge |
Craggy He will be dwarfed by nature Repetition |
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The Prelude Huge peak, black and _______ |
Huge Plosive sounds suggest dominance and heaviness of nature |
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The Prelude For many day… o’er my ________ |
Thoughts It keeps bugging him |
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My Last Duchess I gave commands; then all _______ stopped together |
Smiles Euphemism- Metaphor the gives the impression something is better than it is |
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My Last Duchess My gift of a nine-hundred-year-old ______ |
Name Irony- He boasts about being the duke but his name dies with him |
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My Last Duchess The ________ I have drawn for you |
Curtain Metaphor- he controls who see his wife and who doesn’t |
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My Last Duchess My _______ |
Object He objectifies and dehumanises her, he is in complete control of her |
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My Last Duchess Neptune… Taming a ________ |
Sea-horse Metaphor- Duke is Neptune, Duchess is sea-horse. Shows control over her |
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Storm on the Island Exploding __________ |
Comfortably Oxymoron for the sea |
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Storm on the Island Leaves and branches can raise a ________ chorus |
Tragic Personification |
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Storm on the Island Leaves and branches can raise a ________ chorus |
Tragic Personification |
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Storm on the Island Spits like a tame cat turned _________ |
Savage Simile |
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Storm on the Island Leaves and branches can raise a ________ chorus |
Tragic Personification |
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Storm on the Island Spits like a tame cat turned _________ |
Savage Simile |
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Storm on the Island A huge _______ that we fear |
Nothing Extended metaphor about the wind (from line 17-19) |
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Storm on the Island Leaves and branches can raise a ________ chorus |
Tragic Personification |
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Storm on the Island Spits like a tame cat turned _________ |
Savage Simile |
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Storm on the Island A huge _______ that we fear |
Nothing Extended metaphor about the wind (from line 17-19) |
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Storm on the Island Houses ________ |
Squat Sibilance- wind howling |
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Tissue ______ too |
Maps Power of borders, links to dual nationality |
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Tissue ______ too |
Maps Power of borders, links to dual nationality |
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Tissue Back of the _______ |
Koran Sarcastic spelling to show her conflict in identity |
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Tissue Paper that lets the ______ shine through |
Light Biblical reference, God is the Light |
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Tissue Paper that lets the ______ shine through |
Light Biblical reference, God is the Light |
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Tissue Smoothed and ________ |
Stroked The sibilance shows the fragility of paper and skin |
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Tissue Paper that lets the ______ shine through |
Light Biblical reference, God is the Light |
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Tissue Smoothed and ________ |
Stroked The sibilance shows the fragility of paper and skin |
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Tissue Paper thinned by ____ |
Age Whole poem is an extended metaphor for life, as paper gets older it gets thinner, same with skin |
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Tissue _________ tissue … turned into your skin |
Living |
