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Form-What Were They Like?
Free Verse (no clear pattern, unusual organisation of two objective separate lists labelled with numbers)
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Structure-What Were They Like?
Question and Answer, Contrasts
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Language-What Were They Like?
Imagery, Metaphorical language, alliteration, adverbs
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Tone-What Were They Like?
Questions-detatched and objective Answers-defensive and bitter
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Quotations-What Were They Like?
"Were they inclined to quiet laughter?"
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Quotations-What Were They Like?
"Peaceful clouds/ bombs that smashed those mirrors"
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Quotations-What Were They Like?
"Sir laughter is bitter to the burned mouth"
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Quotations-What Were They Like?
"Who can say? It is silent now."
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Form-The Man He Killed
Dramatic monologue, quatrains, iambic rhythm
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Structure-The Man He Killed
Enjambment, framing structure
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Language-The Man He Killed
Speech marks, colloquial language, dashes, monosyllabic, pronouns
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Quotations-The Man He Killed
"because-Because he was my foe"
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Quotations-The Man He Killed
"staring face to face"
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Quotations-The Man He Killed
"Yes; quaint and curious war is!"
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Quotations-The Man He Killed
"I shot at him as he at me"
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Tone-The Man He Killed
Reflective as it is an an account of his war experiences
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Form-The Destruction of Sennacherib
Narrative Poem, Quatrains, rhyming couplets, Anapestic tetrameter
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Structure-The Destruction of Sennacherib
Contrasts, Volta (st 2), Juxtaposition
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Language-The Destruction of Sennacherib
Similes, metaphors, archaic language, repetition
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Quotations-The Destruction of Sennacherib
"The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold"
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Quotations-The Destruction of Sennacherib
"sheen of their spears like stars on the sea"
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Quotations-The Destruction of Sennacherib
"gleaming in purple and gold" "distorted and pale"
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Quotations-The Destruction of Sennacherib
"And the widows of Ashur are loud in their wail"
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Quotations-The Destruction of Sennacherib
"the Angel of Death spread his wings"
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Form-The Prelude
Epic poem, blank verse
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Structure- The Prelude
No stanza breaks, narrative structure, enjambment, caesura
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Language-The Prelude
Oxymoron, personification, extended metaphor, repetition ("and")
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Quotations-The Prelude
"One summer evening (led by her)
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Quotations-The Prelude
"troubled pleasure" "act of stealth"
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Quotations-The Prelude
"dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being"
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Quotations-The Prelude
"glittering idly" "sparkling light"
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Form-War Photographer
Free Verse (photographer's thoughts/feelings)
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Structure-War Photographer
Starts+ends in present tense, juxtapositions, ambiguous ending
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Language-War Photographer
Graphic imagery, lexis of luxury, sibilance, punctuation (dashes & ellipses)
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Tone-War Photographer
Honest, confessional, reflective (makes reader more aware when viewing images from the media)
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Quotations-War Photographer
"I seek out the tragic, the absurd"
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Quotations-War Photographer
"sun-gilded girls" "champagne giggles"
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Quotations-War Photographer
"small girl staggering" "dark scream"
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Quotations-War Photographer
"as arbitrary as a blood stain on the wall"