Key Quotes Flashcards

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Two key quotes from a poison tree?

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I was angry with my foe I told it not my wrath did grow

And it grew both day and night til it bore an apple bright

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Two key quotes from the destruction of Sennacherib?

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And the sheen of their spears were like stars on the sea

For the angel of death spread his wings on the blast

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Two key quotes from the prelude?

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Small circles glittering idly in the moon

There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion

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Two key quotes from the man he killed?

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I shot at him as he at me and killed him in his place

I shot him dead because- because he was my foe

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Two key quotes from cousin Kate?

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He work me like a golden knot and changed me like a glove

The neighbours call you good and pure, call me an outcast thing

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Two key quotes from half-caste?

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Explain yuself wha yu mean when you say half caste

Yu mean tchaikovsky sit down at dah piano an mix a black key wid a white key is a a half-caste symphony

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Two key quotes from exposure?

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Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow

All their eyes are ice, but nothing happens

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Two key quotes from The charge of the light brigade?

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All in the valley of death rode the six hundred

Honour the light brigade noble six hundred

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Two key quotes from Catrin?

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Fierce confrontation, the tighter red rope of love which we both fought over

Trailing love and conflict as you ask may you skate in the dark for one more hour

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Two key quotes from war photographer?

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She dropped her burden and, mouth too small for her dark scream

But hell, like heaven, is untidy it’s boundaries arbitrary as a blood stain on a wall

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Two key quotes from Belfast confetti?

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It was raining exclamation marks

Why can’t I escape? Every move is punctuated

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Two key quotes for the class game?

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How can you tell what class I’m from?

Don’t I crook my little finger when I drink me tea, say toilet instead of bog when I want to pee?

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Two key quotes from poppies?

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Three days before Armistice Sunday and poppies had already been placed

I listened, hoping to hear your playground voice catching in the wind

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Two key quotes from no problem?

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I am not de problem but I bare de brunt of silly playground taunts an racist stunts

I am a born academic but dey got me on the run now I am branded athletic

An just for de record, sum of mr best friends are white

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Two key quotes from what were they like?

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Did the people of Vietnam use Lanterns of stone

Sir their light hearts turned to stone

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