English quotes IB HL

The Sorrow of War - metaphors: trauma/coping, writing/end result

ash from the exorcism of devils

The Sorrow of War - ironic metaphor: postwar life in Hanoi

parade of horrific memories

The Sorrow of War - metaphors: the poor/conscription, deaths

seeds’ for the war harvest

Anowa - simile: wealth

like a god possessing a priest

Anowa- Metaphor: global slave trade/loss of culture/assimilation: British culture

bigger crime

Anowa- metonyms: identity, sense of self

a good woman does not have a brain or mouth

Wilfred Owen- 2 metaphors: “Mental Cases”

purgatorial shadows

Wilfred Owen- dehumanizing epithet/propaganda/irony: “Smile, Smile, Smile”

they’re happy now, poor things

Candide- allusion, motif

best of all possible worlds

Wallace Stevens- author’s quote

we live in the mind

Wallace Stevens- metaphor: “The Idea at Key West”

fragrant portals

The Sorrow of War- water symbolism: war/storm → war/inescapable current, tide → drifting, drowning

river of life

The Sorrow of War- motif: connected to all conflicts

war warps and distorts

The Sorrow of War- metaphor: war; connect to motif of animal psychology

war makes a world without real men

Anowa- irony: Old Woman/heteroglossic structure, etc.

dumbest man is better than any woman

Anowa- Old man at end of play: Aidoo’s rejection of superstition

men who make men mad

Candide- allusion, motif

sufficient reason

Candide- allegory, symbolism

terrestrial paradise

Candide- connotation: cultivate/allegory, symbolism garden

cultivate our garden

Candide- motif, paradox

laws of war

Wallace Stevens- metaphor: “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman”

Poetry is the supreme fiction

Wallace Stevens- metaphor: “The Idea of Order at Key West”

She was the maker

Wallace Stevens- personification, paradox: “Sunday Morning”

Death is the mother of beauty

Wallace Stevens- heroic couplet, apostrophe: “To the one of Fictive Music”

Give back what once gave

Wilfred Owen- “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country”/Allusion: Horace Odes

Dulce et Decorum Est/ Propatria mori

Wilfred Owen- hypophora/simile “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

Wilfred Owen- simile: “Disabled”

All of them touch him like some queer disease

Wilfred Owen- allusion: Horace’s Odes/ “Dulce et Decorum est”

the old lie