English END OF YEAR EXAM Revision Flashcards
The Chimney Sweeper key quotations (3)
“Weep weep” in notes of woe
Clothes of death
Both gone up to church to pray (parents)
The Ecchoing Green key quotations (3+1)
Welcome the spring
Birds of the bush sing louder around
Old John…does laugh away with care
Merry, cheerful, joys
Chimney sweeper themes (5)
Industrialisation, fallen age, urbanisation, isolation, children
The Ecchoing green themes (3)
Nature, children, sublime
Upon Westminster bridge key quotes (3)
Earth has not anything to show more fair
Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie
Never did the sun more beautifully steep in his first splendour, valley, rock or hill
The world is too much with us key quotes (3+1)
The world is too much with us; late and soon
Little we see in nature that is ours
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon
I’d rather be a Pagan - in the sestet
Sordid boon meaning
A poor deal
2 types of sonnet
Shakespearean Sonnet, Petrarchan Sonnet
Upon Westminster bridge techniques (4)
Listing
Simile - ‘The city…like a garment’
Personification- ‘the very houses seem asleep’
Rhyming couplets used with enjambment
Assonance
Repetition of vowel sounds
Repetition of vowel sounds
Assonance
Oxymoron
Two opposing words next to each other
A group of related words
Semantic field
Opposite of hyperbole
Litotes
Sentence running over more than one line
Enjambment
