Module B, Year 12 English Quotes!

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"Let us go then, you and I / When the evening is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table" - Prufrock

Simile → numbness disguised as romance; sets paralysed tone.

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"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons" - Prufrock

Metonym → trivial routine, wasted potential.

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"Do I dare / Disturb the universe?" - Prufrock

Hyperbole → tiny decision, inflated to cosmic stakes.

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"We are the hollow men / We are the stuffed men" - Hollow Men

Anaphora, effigy imagery → identity as empty performance.

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"Between the idea / And the reality... / Falls the Shadow" - Hollow Men

Repeated antithesis, symbolism → intention collapses before action.

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"This is the way the world ends / Not with a bang but a whimper" - Hollow Men

Anticlimax → decline, not disaster, ends everything.