GCSE AQA English Literature Poetry: Medusa 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureMoon on the TidesCarol Ann DuffyGCSEAQA Created by: Phoebe_LynchCreated on: 12-04-15 11:01 'A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy' Listing 1 of 18 'grew in my mind' Personification 2 of 18 'flithy snakes' Fricative / agressive / refers to the myth 3 of 18 'spat on my scalp' Sibilance / snake-like 4 of 18 'My bride's breath soured, stank' Plosive alliteration / sibiliance 5 of 18 'in the grey bags of my lungs' Metaphor / colour of stone / unhealthy 6 of 18 'I'm foul mouthed now, fould tongued, / yellow fanged.' Triple / refers to the myth 7 of 18 'There are bullet tears in my eyes.' Metaphor is paradoxical 8 of 18 'Are you terrified?' Direct address / rhetorical question 9 of 18 'Be terrified.' Short sentence / imperative 10 of 18 'own' 'stone' Rhyme 11 of 18 Spoken quality 1st person / enjambment 12 of 18 'fire spewed' Personification 13 of 18 'from the mouth of a mountain' Alliteration 14 of 18 'and your girls, your girls' Repetition / implies she is no longer a girl 15 of 18 'Wasn't I beautiful? / Wasn't I fragrant and young?' Rhetorical questions / Almost repetition 16 of 18 Structure 7 stanzas and 1 line 17 of 18 'Greek God' 'Gorgon' 'dragon' 'shield' 'sword' 'Medusa' Semantic field of myth 18 of 18
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