Key Poems For Exams Flashcards
(18 cards)
What is the imagery in “London” that shows streets are owned
Chartered streets
What is the language in London that shows cry’s for help
Marks of weakness and woe
What is the acrostic in London?
H
E
A
R
What is the metaphor in my last duchess
Notice Neptune taming a sea horse
What is the language in MLD
All smiles stopped
What form is MLD written in?
Enjambment
What are the metaphors in exposure?
Merciless iced east winds that knife us
Dawn massing her melancholy armies in the east
What language in exposure shows the weather acting as the enemy
Silent sentries whisper curious nervous
What line does Owen end every stanza on in exposure
And nothing happens
What is the graphic imagery used in remains
“Tosses his guts back into his body”
What is the language used in remains?
Sun stunned sand smothered land
What Anaphora is used in remains?
“I see” x2
What metaphor is used in kamikaze
Better way to die
What language is used in kamikaze
Built pearl grey pebbles
What structure is used in kamikaze
Enjambment
Rhyme scheme is like a conversation
What imagery is used in ozymandias
Round the decay of that colossal wreck- extended metaphor
Traveller from an antique land- mysterious opening
What language is used in ozymandias
Boundless and bare
Sand stretches far away- hissing sound
What structure is used in ozymandias
Iambic pentameter - 10 syllables per line
Broken Sonnet structure
Long sentences- shows worn down control
