English revision Cards

Ozymandias

Form: The poem is a sonnet, with an unusual rhyme scheme - suggest things are out of balance, uses iambic pentameter and enjambment. is a second hand account - didstances us away from dead king.
Structure: Build up image of statue by foccucing on different parts, it ends by describing enourmous desert - insugnificance of statue.
Contrast: between arogant king, thought he was the mightiest ruler, and the powerful destruction of the statue over time.
Language: the tyranny of the ruller suggested through angry language
Pride - proud of what he acheived
Arrogance - thought he was really powerful, and better than anyone who ruled
Power - time is powerful, it can destroy many things

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Form: dramatic Monologue, first you think the duke s speaking to you -(more powerful). Uses iambic pentameter, enjambment and caesura, ryhyming couplets - make speaker sound educated
Structure: goes from one subject to another - suggests he is unstable, we craete an other all impression of him by the cobination of things he says.
Staus: The duke cares about how people see him and staus is also important to him
Power: feels he needs power and control over duchess, he saw her as one of his possesions
Pride: very proud of his possesions - the duchess
Jelousy: didn't like the duchess treating anyone else better than him (lines 31-34)

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Form: Dramatic monologue, use rugular rhyming couplets - songlike quality. Uses enjambment - flows like water
Structure: beggining presented as friendly and innocent, he becomes threatening and possesive
Power: he is desperate and possesive over the women - doesnt want to leave her, foccuses on her face - values her apperance
Contrast: the old smeely river to the beautiful women, uses affectionate language and contarst it with harsh reality, makes it more shocking
Euphemism: suggests the women is sleeping rather than dead, uses ambiguous language and iamges of love rather than death - suggests he is deluded
Love: The river god desires the women, obsessed with her
Arrogance: powerful but careless, treats the women as a toy
Selfishness: doesn't want to share the women, is possesive over her

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Form: Narrative poem, contains several characters, the hunchback is silent but we access his feelings through the narrator
Structure: series of observations, visual descriptions build up the poem to give it a dream like quality
Natural Similies: seems to have more in commen with nature than other humans - suggests he is part of the enviroment
Mocking Language: the boys mock him, words of natural speech, makes their actiuon seen more realistic and threatneing to the man
Loneliness: presented as alone, seperate from the rest of the world, nobody understand him
Thoughtlessness: the boys are cruel to him, by mocking him, although they also seem innconet, maybe they are unaware of the consequences of their actions
Vulnerability: the vision of the women shows he wants some one to protect him

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Form: dramatic dialogue, uses rhyme to build up lively conversation,it is in ballad form so sounds light hearted, has strict rhyming couplets - strict rules of society make the ballad seem ironic
Structure: we don't know how the main character got her riches, the ready is naive like the country farm girl, we gradually get the full story
Contrast: the hard life for the country farm girl contrasted with melia's new life also the way the dress and speak
Ambiguity: Melia is proud of being ruined beacuse she can rise out of poverty, she mocks the victorian idea that it is better to be moral and poor.
Natural speech: rural speech is written phonetically, to emphasise the change in melia's speech, it is ironic she uses rural speech at the end
Jelousy: the poor country girl is envious of melia, although melia is runined
Pride: she brags about her new wealth, looks down at the country girl
Depression: she was depressed with her old hard labouring job and has found something more rewarding to do

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Form: Dramatic monologue, stanzas are often broken but linked through enjambment - makes her memories disjointed
Structure: begins and ends with isolated lines, alternates between first and third person narrative, this empahasises the seperation of her
Contrast: between past alison and present alison, she suffered lots of physical change but also mental damage
Pronouns: refere's to her formal self as "she" and only uses "i" to talk about the present, disconected from the person she was before
Confusion: she frequently mentions her memory loss causes her confusion
Greif: she has to be reminded about her fathers death everyday - she will never get over it. she cannot mourn his death because of her brain damage.
Loss: she talks about everything she has lost since the accident, the hopes and dreams she had have now also been lost

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Form: written like an elegy, it has a strict alternate rhyming scheme - makes his thoughts seem ordered, it is also very regular - trying to keep his emotions under control
Structure: the first 7 stanzas are a first person narrative about his father, he laternates between pleasent and horriable images - shows he can't stop thinking about death
Senses: his father is defined as a deaf man in the title, and frequentky mentions the 4 senses to emphasise his fathers connection with the world
Contrast: Love for his father is contrasted with the descriptions of death, links them together
Bitterness: in the final stanza he is bitter about the way his father has suffered, he angrily accuses god for what has happened
Love: he remembers his father with affection, remembering all the things he loved

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