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  • Poppies is written from the perspective of...? What does Jane Weir invert during this poem?
  • "A shaved head / full of powerful incantations" What technique is being used with 'incantations' and what does it suggest about the pilot?
  • Our brains ache in the ________ iced east winds that ______ us" Complete the quote
    merciless / knive
  • Summarise London and what the poet William Blake is criticising about 18th century London
  • • “I wanted to graze my nose / across the tip of your nose, play at / being Eskimos like we did when / you were little" What semantic field is being used and what is the effect?
  • Summarise the Emigree and what it says about conflict
  • What is a deeper meaning of the storm in Storm on the Island?
  • • “It may be at war, it may be sick with tyrants, / but I am branded by an impression of sunlight.” What structural technique is used here and what is the effect?
  • Summarise Kamikaze and what it shows about power
  • What technique is used and what is the effect? "Went heaving through the water like a swan"
  • What is interesting about the author of Exposure - Wilfred Owen?
  • Summarise Checking Out Me History and what it criticises
  • "Dem tell me" - what is the first word an example of and what is the effect?
  • "In every cry of every man / In every infant's cry of fear" What technique is used and what's the effect?
  • Complete the quote: Like a ______ cat turned ______
    tame savage
  • Summarise the Prelude and its message