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Poetry Cluster 1

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  • Why does the Duke have his wife killed?
    He is jealous of her heart "too soon made glad"
  • "My name is Ozymandias, __ of ___: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and ___!"
    king, kings, despair
  • What does "chartered" mean?
    Legally owned and controlled
  • "Two ___ and ___ legs of stone"
    vast, trunkless
  • "That's my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were ___."
    alive
  • what is the term for a repeated sentence structure / phrase?
    anaphora
  • "And mark in every face I meet / Marks of __, marks of __."
    weakness, woe
  • What do we call a break in a line?
    a caesura
  • What had happened to make London so crowded and full of poverty in Blake's era?
    the industrial revolution
  • Who wrote My Last Duchess?
    Robert Browning
  • "mind-forged manacles" - name 2 devices used in this phrase
    alliteration, metaphor
  • Give an example of oxymoron from Blake's London
    youthful harlot / marriage hearse
  • "I gave commands; Then all __ stopped together."
    smiles
  • Which real-life "Duchess" was MLD based on?
    Lucrezia de Medici
  • how many syllables in a line of iambic pentameter?
    10 - 5 x iambs
  • How old is the Duke's title?
    "nine-hundred-years-old"
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