War Photographer - Carol Ann Duffy

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Which war is being described in "War Photographer"?
Any modern conflict
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Finish the quote (opening line): "In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ...
ordered rows"
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Fill in the gap: "a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All _____ is grass.
flesh
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Fill in the gap:"He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not____then though seem to now"
tremble
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Fill in the gap: "don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a _______ heat.
nightmare
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Finish the quote: "Something is happening. A stranger's features faintly start to twist before his eyes, a ...
half-formed ghost"
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Finish the quote: "He remembers the cries of this man's ...
wife"
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Finish the quote: " Home again to ...
ordinary pain"
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Fill in the gap: "how the ______ stained into foreign dust."
blood
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Fill in the gap: "A hundred _______ in black-and-white from which his editor will pick out five or six"
agonies
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Finish the quote: "The reader's eyeballs prik with tears between bath and pre-lunch ...
beers"
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Finish the quote (final line): "From aeroplane he stares impassively at where he earns a living and they ...
do not care"
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The readers/society have become ______ by the loss, horror and sheer calamity of war in this poem.
desensitised
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"darkroom", "spools" and "solutions" create a semantic field of...
photography
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"Church", "Mass" and "dust" create a semantic field of ...
religion
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Card 2

Front

Finish the quote (opening line): "In his darkroom he is finally alone with spools of suffering set out in ...

Back

ordered rows"

Card 3

Front

Fill in the gap: "a priest preparing to intone a Mass. Belfast. Beirut. Phnom Penh. All _____ is grass.

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Fill in the gap:"He has a job to do. Solutions slop in trays beneath his hands which did not____then though seem to now"

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Fill in the gap: "don't explode beneath the feet of running children in a _______ heat.

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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