General Quote Bank 2.0

Question 1

ozymandias

Answer 1

• “half sunk, a shattered visage lies”
• “my name is ozymandias, king of kings”
• “the lone and levelled sand stretch far away”

Question 2

london

Answer 2

• “i wonder through each chartered street, near where the chartered thames does flow”
• “the mind-forged manacles i hear”
• “runs in blood down palace walls”
• “in every cry of every man”
• in every infants cry of fear”

Question 3

charge of the light brigade

Answer 3

• “cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them, cannon behind them”
• some one had blunder’d: theirs not to make reply, theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die”
• “into the valley of death, rode the six hundred”

Question 4

exposure

Answer 4

• “our brains ache, in the merciless ice east winds that knive us…”
• “all their eyes are ice, but nothing happens”
• “sudden successive flights of of bullets streak the silence”
• worried by silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous, but nothing happens”

Question 5

storm on the island

Answer 5

• “we are prepared: we build our houses squat, sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate”
• exploding comfortably down the cliffs”
• the flung spray hits the very windows, spits like a tamed cat turned savage”
• ” we are bombarded by the empty air. strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear”

Question 6

bayonet charge

Answer 6

• “suddenly he awoke and was running - raw in raw-seamed hot khaki”
• bullets smacking the belly out of the air- he lugged a rifle as numb as a smashed arm”
• “king, honour, human dignity, etcetera dropped like luxuries in a yelling alarm”