A Cradle Song (innocence) Flashcards

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About

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  • feel of a sweet childhood lullaby.
  • mother’s love for her baby
  • sings song to baby who is going to sleep in the cradle
  • singing verses in exclamatory tone, saying baby has a sweet smole that makes angels hover over him.
  • continues all night until she hears sighns and moans of her child, and sees jesus in her face. maker, god.
  • her child is peaceful to her whole creation is peaceful.
  • Jesus smile of infants mile, heaven and earth keep pace.
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Motherly love - themes

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  • innocence, role of jesus, faith
  • motherly love and religious inclinations.
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Literary devices

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  • Allusion - allusion of religion, jesus, maker
  • anaphora
  • assonance
  • imagery - make readeres perceive things involving their five senses.
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‘sweet’

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  • soothing,
  • inducing sleep on the listerning
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‘sorrows sit’

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  • alliteration, complement metrical rhythems.
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