Literature Flashcards
(11 cards)
What’s the semantic field of Ozymandias?
Semantic field of Destruction - “Shattared visage”, “colossal wreck” and “lifeless”
What’s the semantic field of London?
Semantic field of Death -
“Blood”, “Blights and plagues”
and “hearse”
What’s the Semantic field of My last Duchess?
Semantic field of Pride - “Neptune”, “command” and
“nine-hundred-years-old name”
Marriage and Hearse is oxymoron. What does that mean?
Basically juxtaposition but the words are next to each other or the same line.
What does Marriage and Hearse symbolize?
It creates a dichotomy (tension of two worlds) as a marriage symbolises nurture, health, and positivity as well as love whereas “hearse” is more of a sinister tone referring to death and being alone
What can enjambment symbolise?
Sense of urgency, tension, or rising emotion as the reader is pulled from one line to the next.
What can enjambment symbolise in London?
In London, the enjambment used by Blake symbolises that the coercive control that the government have is ongoing as no one is doing anything to change it. the enjambment is a reflection of the frustration blake has towards the government and the idle minds of people in society who are naive to issues in the natural order which is disrupted by control that the government think they’re entitled to due to their power and position.
Whats Dramatic Irony?
When the reader of the novel, knows something that the characters do not
What’s the semantic field of the War photographer?
Semantic Field of Pain - “Spools of suffering” “nightmare heat” and “Hundred agonies”
What’s the semantic field of Kamikaze?
Semantic field of Colour/Nature - “Green-blue translucent”, “Flashing-silver” and “Pearl gray”
What’s the semantic field of Poppies?
Semantic field of Textiles - “turned into felt”, “smoothed down” and “Making tucks, darts, pleats”
