| What quotes in My Last Duchess hints that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess hints that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess hints that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess hints that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess hints that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious |
| What are some quotes that makes it sound like he owns the duchess in My Last Duchess? | "My last Duchess painted on the wall" |
| Who wrote Ozymandias and what is it about? | Percy Shelly wrote Ozymandias, and it's about a traveller talking about a tyrannical ruler that boasts about his power, despite his statue crumbling away at the present day. |
| What are the themes/ moods of Ozymandias? | Pride, arrogance and power. |
| What quote in line 1 emphasises Ozymandias' lack of power and why? | "I met a traveller from an antique land"
This tells us that the narrator hasn't seen about the statue, only heard about it. This means that Ozymandias' reign hasn't reached far and wide, showing his unimportance. |
| What do the words "vast", "trunkless" and "stone" emphasise in Ozymandias? | It emphasises the size and stature, but also shows that it's imcompleted. |
| What does the setting suggest in Ozymandias? Include the quote. | "Stand in the desert"
This suggests that there's an absence of life and vitality (active; strong). |
| What does the quote "sneer of cold command" suggest in Ozymandias? | It suggests that he was tyrannical, and that the painter knew and understood he was an arrogant ruler. |
| What two contrasting words are used in the middle of the extract, and what is it suggesting in Ozymandias? | "survive ... lifeless"
This suggests that art can outlast human power. |
| What does "king of kings" and "ye mighty" suggest in Ozymandias? | That Ozymandias was powerful, arrogant and challenged others. |
| What is ironic about what Ozymandias said? Include the quote and use other quotes to further emphasize your answer. | "despair!"
It's ironic because he tells other rulers to fear his power, however, in the end it's temporary.
We know this because of;
"the decay"
"colossal wreck"
Suggesting how the statue is ruined and how insignificant his power is compared to time. |
| What technique is used on the last line in Ozymandias? What does this tell us? Include the quote. | "lone and level" - Alliteration.
This emphasises the emptiness of the desert. |
| What quotes suggest that the desert is vast in Ozymandias? What does this tell us? | "Boundless and bare"
"Stretch far away"
This suggests that the desert survives far longer than the broken statue, emphasising Ozymandias' insignificance, and his inferirority. |
| What does trunkless mean? | Without a torso. |
| What does visage mean? | Face. |
| What is the form of Ozymandias? | A sonnet with a turning point. |
| What is a sonnet? | A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter |
| How is the human power in Ozymandias insignificant to art? | The human power represented through ozymandias is only seen due to the power of art. However, nature and time have ruined the statue, showing how it's superior. |
| Why was Ozymandias described as prideful? | He was very proud, and wanted others to admire his works. |
| Why was Ozymandias described as arrogant? | He believed he was the most powerful and that nothing could compete with him. |
| Why did Shelly describe Ozymandias as arrogant ? | Shelly was a Romantic poet, believing more on emotion rather than reason. Shelly also disliked monarchies, power and oppression which started during the French Revolution when the monarchy was overthrown. |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess show power? | "My last Duchess painted on the wall" - sounds like he owns the duchess.
"The curtain I have drawn for you" - he controls who looks at the painting.
"I gave commands then all smiles stopped together"
"taming a sea horse" |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess show jealously? | "her looks went everywhere" - the duke thinks she flirted a lot
"she thanked men"
"but who passed without much the same smile?" - he sounds suspicious as if questioning her faithfulness. |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess show pride? | "I call that piece a wonder"
"my gift of a nine hundred years old name" - proud of his history |
| What quotes in My Last Duchess hint that she was murdered? | "half flush that died along her throat" - constant reference to death is suspicious
"I gave commands then alls miles stoped together" - seems like an indirect command for his wife's murder; cold; cynical. |
| What is My Last Duchess about? | A duke that points out a painting of his former wife.
He is angered by her behaviour because she was friendly towards everyone.
He acted to stop this behaviour but he doesn't specify how, yet hints that he murdered her. |
| What are the themes in My Last Duchess? | Power of humans, fear, pride, power, jealousy, memory and identity. |
| What are the themes in The Charge of the Light Brigade? | Admiration, honor, conflict, identity. |
| What is The Charge of the Light Brigade about? | A battle between British cavalry and Russian forces.
A misunderstanding causes them to march out and be surrounded by the enemy.
They are practically defenseless against the Russians with guns and many died. |
| What does the poet do to make it sound like horses galloping? | The rhythm makes it sounds like galloping horses' hooves'
"half a league, half a league, half a league onward". |
| What quote in The Charge of the Light Brigade make the soldiers sound obedient? | "Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die" - the repetition shows their sense of duty even though they would have been killed. |
| What quote in The Charge of the Light Brigade tells us that the soldiers were surrounded? | "Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them". |
