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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"

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