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Post 2000s Revision Flashcards

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Eat Me key quotes

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“each stone in weight”
“hips judder like a juggernaut”
“beached whale”
“i was a tidal wave of flesh”
“too fat”
“poured olive oil down my throat”
“there was nothing in the house left to eat”

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Eat Me Key Techniques

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Anaphora of Too fat - Speeds the pace up, frantically, the desperation of the man in power

Tone change - Stone in weight - Darkens the tone

Like a juggernaut - Simile - Mimics her sounds, can be seen as her power that she hides and disregards

Water imagery throughout

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Eat Me structure and form

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Dramatic Monologe
6 Stanzas
Volta last 3 stanzas
Very tight form - Mimics restrictive nature of the poem, creates this tension

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Eat Me themes

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Power and Control
Violence
Masculinity

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Chainsaw vs Pampas Key Quotes

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weightless wreckage of wasps
dropped the saftey catch and gunned the trigger
just an instant rage
chainsaw with its bloody desire, its sweet tooth
i let it flare, lifted it up to the sun
ludicrous feathers

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Chainsaw Key techniques

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Personifies the chainsaw- the violent egotistical narcissistic invention of man that performs violent acts
animalistic imagery
metaphor of the heart beat- it isn’t alive it has been created for destruction - ironic as nature is alive

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Chainsaw Form and Structure

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No regular rhyme
Free verse

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Chainsaw Themes

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Violence
Power
Masculinity
Power of nature

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Lammas Hireling Key Quotes

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I grew fond of company. That knew when to shut up ( Changes the tone)
The moon came out ( Gothic notion of the moon witnessing crimes )
His lovely head thinned. His top lip gathered ( intimate)
I carried him
i don’t dream - circular- He did dream at the beginning- so consumed with guilt
i dropped him from a bridge - violent
Bless me father for i have sinned. It has been an hour since my last confession ( religious symbolism - incredibly plagued by guilt- he repeats this story again and again )

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Lammas Form and Structure

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Dramatic Monologue- Mirros in a sense the coffesional tone to the poem
free verse, half rhyme
Tightly controlled

Archaic quality

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Lammas Themes

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Guilt
Violence

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Giussepe Key quotes

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Captive mermaid ( Metaphor- for victims in war - mythology)
her throat was cut
anyway and egg is not a child ( brutal uncaring language)
couldn’t look me in the eye ( immense gulit)

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Guiseppe Techniques

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alliteration
simile
flat tone - suppressed emotions

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Guiseppe themes

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Murder
Guilt
Violence

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Guiseppe Form and structure

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Free Verse
Methodical line breaks and emjabment to create sinister pace

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The Gun Key Quotes

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Bringing a gun into a house changes it
gray- shadow and green- checkered ( uncomfortable colours )
rabbit shot clean through the head ( violent imagery, the volta, incredibly brutal)
your eyes gleam like when sex was fresh
the king of death (simile )
spouting gold on croucos (cycle like)

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The Gun Themes

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Violence
Power

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Gun Form and Structure

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Free verse
unstructured feel - like the speakers thoughts

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Material Key quotes

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my mother was the hanky queen ( metaphor )
hankies were material ( always linking back to the material)
spitted and scrubbed (sibilance, soft motherly care)
greengrocer george and friendly bunches ( genertaional difference , community in neighbourhoods )
would whip out a hanky ( repeated imagery of motherly care)
i raised neglected looking kids ( contrast between her and her mam, regret)
It isn’t mine i’ll let go my mother too eventually ( the death of her mother, letting go of the past, slower stanza )

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Material key themes

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Family and Parenthood
Grief and loss
Memory
Mothers love and affection

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Material Structre and form

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Free verse
Rhyme
9 stanzas

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Out of the bag key quotes

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the trap sprung mouth ( animalistic, uneasy)
Back into their lining ( personification of the doctor’s bag)
spaniel coloured ( link to animals sense of uneasiness )
tea-hued infant parts ( changes to dark tone, violent and unpleasant imagery)

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OTB themes

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childhood innocence
medicine
violence
memory

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OTB structure and form

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13 stanzas
free verse gives poem a more intimate confessional quality
no strict meter

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An East Passage Key Themes
Memory Family
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An East Passage Key quotes
she must not do is think friend who she is half in love warm flank ( body imagery) the grains of the asphlat ( indication of an uncomfortable aging struggle) what can she know ( the changes of aging, the innocence of childhood)
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Easy Passage Structure and form
Conversation Tone throught- as if she’s talking to her old self Free verse no rhyme captures one moment
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Genetics Key Quotes
my fathers in my fingers and my mothers in my palms ( anaphora) when fingers link to palms at least i know their marriage by my hands mirroring bodies in the future we know our parents make us by our hands
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Genetics Structure and Form
Villanelle Lyricism - almost has a nursery like rhyme within constant anophora
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Genetics Themes
Family Love Memory / Reflection
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9 Yr old self key quotes
you must forgive me don’t look so suprised ( regret and guilt in childhood ) i have spoiled this body we once shared (corruption of adulthood in childhood contradicts speed) the dream we had (through adulthood she lost all faith in her dreams ) for men in cars after girl children ( fears of who to look out for, a sense of danger) i shan’t cloud your morning (darker tone reflection, doesn’t want to dissapoint) i have fears enough for the both of us i’ll leave you in ecstacy
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9 Yr old self themes
Reflection/ Memory Love Family Loss almost
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9yr old self structure and form
Dramatic Monologe- confessional mimics the sense she is writing tk her past self
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Furthest Distances Key Quotes
i saddled a rucksack ( starts with sub clause to xtreate tension, starts with excitement ) cells of scattered airports ( metaphor for siberia snowyness , also represents the amount of travelling ) as over a tannoy ( simile of announcements / thoughts ) was some kind of destiny ( foreshadowing) routine evictions ( melancholy of everyday life) pressed flowrr amid bottom drawers ( nostalgia)
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Furthest Distances Themes
Journey/ Travel Memory/ Reflection Loss/ Melancholy Nostalgia Lonlieness
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Furthest Distances Structure
Loose rhyme Lyricism Rhyme scheme at end becomes more structured represented every day capitalist life style
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Blindness Key quotes
bear being blind (alliteration) handicaps are hell like a roman ( simile compare unlikeness) it’s living hell ( pain around living with this) she kept her dignity she pretended to ignore the void dying has made her no less more sightless she was watching somewhere in the end q
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Blindness Key themes
Loss/ Grief Memory and reflection Disability
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Blindness Structure and Form
Free verse No rhyme Not lyrical Enjabment forces reader to move quickly
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Effects Key quotes
i held her hand that was always scared giving love the only way she knew ( asyentic listing) the rings she kept ( anaphora of rings , symbol of love ) she was his wife ( rumination of death) not all the weeks i didn’t come ( tone of regret ) stared unseeing ( semantic mirroring)
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Effects Key Themes
Loss Memory and reflection Regret
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Effects structure and form
One long stanza
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A minor role key quotes
i’m bessed observed on stage exits and entrances - conceat of theatre waiting room roles - visual imagery of drawing the curtain thinking ahead. bed? - rheototical they can only speek to them selves i am here to make you believe in life - circular
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Minor Role structure and form
Truncated Structure No rhyme scheme 6 unequal stanzas
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Minor role key themes
Reflection Melancholy
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Please Hold Key quotes
This is the future wonderful - repetition number - repittion paying the robots for doing nothing - expressing his anger mind reading robot - ironic I scream - tone more frustrated
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Please Hold key themes
Modern Technology Anger
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Please Hold Structure
All one stanza with a lot of repition
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Journal Key quotes
i discovered these men driving a pile - animalistic like watching prey even men ; the powerful men - masculinity physically powerful - he is distanced from that all monosylibles- mocking the men playing close attention - feels incredibly distant men were up against great difficulty- pressures of masculinity
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Journal Key themes
Memory Distance Masculinity
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Journal structure and form
Tightly controlled stanza - link to the control and expecting men have in twork free verse no rhyme
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Dover Key quotes
invade and phlegm’edq- violent imagery around the migrants cushy-,come and go tourists - how the media see them - harsh C sounds phlegemed- idea of them being spat on lording the ministered waves hitched in a bedford van - animalistic seasons or years we reap passport us to life flecked by the chalk of britannia
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Dover structure
Wave like structure - sentnace types and enjabmant stepped structure punglism
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Dover Themes
Treatment of Migrants Identity
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Ode on a Greyson Perry Quotes
gaudy eviction - crude and condescending language Daily express expose - conflict and social view of old and young generation educate a sense of peace, a sense of calm - beauty of living in the moment oral and noise imagery They will stay out late - suspend in time chlamydia roulette - the niavity of sexual recklessness garish crock - tone judgemental how happy were those creatures then - beauty is truth and truth is beauty link
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Ode Greyson Perry Themes
Subjective Beauty Reflection Time and change
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Greyson Perry Structure and form
Ode - A poem of dedication Free verse
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The Deliverer Key Quotes
How she came to collect the children found naked in the streets, stuffed in bags - asytntic listing, brutal imagery dog up by a dog - alliteration - brutal - peak of the horror know about ceremony - ironic -american traditions differ to this one plucking hair of hands - juxtaposed The girl - seperated Twilight corners - dark tone - repressed memory toss the baby to the heap of othered lie down for their men again
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Deliverer key themes
Violence Family Culture Identity
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Deliverer structure
free verse conversational - somber
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History Key quotes
sand spinning of the ribbons - sibilance - light beautiful - contrast with industrial imagery muffled dread - emotive - I knelt down in the sand finding evidnace of life - horrors of rescuing people from the attack snail shells; shreds what we dreamed about - epherreal i am dizzy with fear
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History Structure
cyclical / formed volta
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History Key Themes
Reflection Humanity

A-Level English Lit Poetry (3 decks)

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