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- 1PoetryGhazal--> Form- of poetry beauty and pains of love. The final word in each couplet is the same but the last-but-one words in each stanza and also couplets aren't suppose to be connected.
- 2PoetryGhazal--> Structure- The separate nature of each stanza means that we are given a whole range of different ideas and images in quick succession. Makes the poem seem playful but also quite intence.
- 3PoetryManhunt--> Form- This is a first person narrative from Laura's view point. The poem is divided into separate couplets- long stanzas which emphasise how this describes a slow, step-by-step process.
- 4PoetryManhunt--> Structure- Different injuries are introduced into different couplets. The reader explores the husbands body and mind in the same process that his wife has done. It is in first person, repeated metaphors.
- 5PoetryBoth Manhunt and Ghazal have couplets, emotion, love and first person.
- 6PoetryThe Farmers Bride
-Repetition/Short sentences
-Adjective 'poor'. creates sympathy
-Rhyme
-'Oh! my God! exclaimation
-'down' metaphor
-Sympathy/ emotive language/ Metaphor
-Simile - 7Farmers bride--> StructureThe farmer tells the story of the marriage through the first 2 stanzas.
- 8PoetryHour
-Rhyme 'poor' + 'Straw'
-Personification 'Time hates love'
-Enjambment 'slowing time down'
-Repetition 'gold'
Metaphor 'love spins gold, gold, gold from Straw.
-Simile
-One word sentence - 9Ranch life relationshipsPart B ideas
-People were despite for work
-Show loneliness
-Shows George and Lennie are different
-George and Lennie have eachother
-Everyone don't have no one
-Moving place to place
-George and Lennie are like eachother and the have a dream
-Racist society
-Agest society
-Women are treated differently
-Ranch life is hard - 10Ranch life relationships-'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world...'
-They have hate towards women (Tramp, tart)
-She is desperately lonely. they want nothing to do with her because she is a women.
-Violet society
-Page 68- 'Get him Lennie. Don't let him do it' George is telling Lennie to stick up for himself.
-Page 73- 'And scattered about the floor were a number of personal possessions; for, being alone
-Page 80- ' I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick'
Page 89- 'Nobody listens to you, an' you know it. Nobody'd listen to you'
Page 31- 'Well, you look her over, mister. You see if she ain't a tart'
Page 75- 'Because I'm black . They say I stink' - 11Inspector calls question 1-Reference to Eva Smith as a girl' by Mr and Mrs Birling ('girls of that sort') The inspector refers her to young women- gives her more status.
-Sheila references for parents- 'Mummy and Daddy'
-Eva's gender makes her more vulnerable and a victim.
-Inspector- 'who is to blame then?'
Mrs Birling-' first, the girl herself' page 47 - 12Inspector Calls question 1-Mrs Birling 'whatever it was, I know it made it finally lose all patience with her...' (Page 46)
-'Hard-headed business man' He only cares for himself and his business, no one else.
-'And you think young women ought to be protected against unpleasant and disturbing things? '(Page 27)
-(Page 3)- 'Now shelia. don't tease him when you're married you'll realise that men with important work to do sometimes'...
-Women being used as sexual objects
-Page 56- 'Just used her for the end of a stupid drunken evening, as if she was an animal'
-Using women for looks etc
-She doesn't have a voice, other than the inspector, who is presented as her champion - essentially, not a character as such.
-Emotive language used to describe her death
-Details of her death and what happens at the end in relation to Eva Smith.
-'No, she didn't want me to marry her Said I didn't love her- and all that in a way... She is not letting Eric walk all over her. (Page 53)
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