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poems Flashcards

1
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give a personification about the clouds in WINTER SWANS

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“the clouds had given their all”

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give a personification for the earth in WINTER SWANS

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“the waterlogged earth/ gulping for breath”

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give a metaphor from WINTER SWANS

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“icebergs of white feather”

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give a simile from WINTER SWANS (boat)

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“like boats righting in rough water”

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an adjective from winter swans

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“WATERLOGGED earth”

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a simile from WALKING AWAY

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“like a satellite/ wrenched from its orbit”

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give a bird metaphor from WALKING AWAY

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“half-fledged thing set free/ into a wilderness

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what word is used as repetition in walking away

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“path”

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give a NATURAL simile from walking away

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“like a winged seed loosened from its parent stem”

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10
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give an an animalisitic and vicious verb from walking away

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“gnaws”

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11
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give an alliteration from letters from yorkshire

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“planting potatoes”

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12
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give a metaphor from letters from yorkshire

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“his knuckles singing”

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give a rhetorical question from letters from yorkshire

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“is your life more real because you dig and sow?”

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14
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give 2 active verbs from letters from yorkshire

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“breaking” and “clearing”

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give a line from LFY that uses enjambment about seasons

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“seeing the seasons/ turning”

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a simile from NEUTRAL TONES

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“the sun was white, as though chidden of God”

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give a line that has 2 uses of alliteration in neutral tones

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“a few leaves lay on the starving sod”

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18
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give 3 words that use game imagery neutral tones

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“tedious” “played “lost”

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give an oxymoron from neutral tones

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“the smile on your mouth was the deadest thing”

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give a bird simile from neutral tones

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“like an ominous bird a-wing…”

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21
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give to adjectives from climbing my grandfather

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“dusty” “cracked”

22
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an oxymoron from CMG

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“the skin of his finger is smooth and thick”

23
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climbing imagery from CMG

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“i rest for a while”

24
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give a metaphor from CMG

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“a smiling mouth to drink among teeth”

25
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give a line that has double meaning from CMG

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“watch a pupil”

26
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give a line where he compares his granddad to the the top of a mountain in CMG

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“(soft and white at this altitude)”

27
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farmer’s bride, hunting imagery

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“we chased her”

28
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2 quotes that compares the woman to an animal in farmer’s bride

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“flying like a hare”

“like a mouse”

29
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a simile to show that she is shy in FB

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“shy as a leveret”

30
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a RQ from FB

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“but what to me”

31
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a list to show how he is losing control in FB

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“her eyes, her hair, her hair”

32
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a quote that uses pathetic fallacy in porthyria’s lover

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“the sullen wind was soon awake”

33
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the repetition of a word that shows he is saying exactly what happened before he killed her PL

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“and”

34
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repetition of a word to show he is obsessed with her physical feature in PL

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“yellow hair”

35
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repetition of 2 words to show he owns her in PL

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“mine” “it”

36
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an animal simile in PL

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“as a shut bud that holds a bee”

37
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repetiton of a word from singh song that shows unity

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“vee share”

38
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a metaphor from SS

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“tiny eyes ov a gun/ and di tummy of a teddy”

39
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a simile from SS

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“like we rowing through putney”

40
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a violent quote from WWTP

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“TO SEVER FOR YEARS”

41
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a quote that uses an AB rhyme scheme in WWTP

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“when we two parted/ half broken-hearted.”

42
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a RQ from WWTP

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“why thou so dear?”

43
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a metaphor from WWTP

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“a knell in mine ear”

44
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personification from love’s philosophy

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“the fountains mingle with the river”

45
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a metaphor from LP

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“see the mountains kiss high heaven”

46
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4 verbs from LP

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“mingle, mix, clasp, kiss”

47
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metaphor from sonnet 29 about thoughts

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“my thoughts do twine and bud”

48
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metaphor that shows she looks up to him in sonnet 29

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“o, my palm tree”

49
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erratic verbs in sonnet 29

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“burst, shattered, everywhere”

50
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a simile from sonnet 29

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“about thee, as wild vines”

51
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a simile from FB to show she is frightened

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like a frightened fay

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