English Unit 4 Study Guide – Flashcards
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"To a Mouse" Author
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Robert Burns
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"To a Mouse" Summary of what poem is about in just a few sentences
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The speaker is plowing a field and accidentally turns up a mouse's nest. The mouse is shivering and terrified. The man stops his work to try to comfort the mouse.
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"To a Mouse" Imagery
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plowing
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"To a Mouse" personification
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the mouse has a home
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"To a Mouse" plot
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the man was plowing the field and he killed a mouse
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"To a Mouse" Tone
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Pity for the mouse, serious and upset, no irony, pettiness emotions for mouse
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"To a Mouse" mood
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sad
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"To a Mouse" theme
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divinity in nature
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"To a Louse" Author
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Robert Burns
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"To a Louse" Purpose
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On seeing one on a lady's Bonnet
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"To a Louse" Imagery
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The imagery used in this poem creates a mental image of a dirty louse is crawling around on someone in church. This can be visualized in line 14; you can visualize the louse creeping and crawling around. Slide 2 Through the words of this poem you hear anger in the author's voice. You can also see the louse crawling around. The whole poem is a symbol of upper-class society versus lower-class society. In line 41, the "winks and finger-ends," symbolized others in church who begin talking or laughing about her situation. The louse symbolizes how little things can bring even those who think themselves better or see themselves as one way can be viewed by others as not being that way. The girl thought she looked pretty but she had a dirty louse on her. Slide 4 The poem does rhyme. The 2nd, 3rd, and 5th stanza rhyme with each other. Line 8, Line 14, and Line 23 both contain alliteration within the lines. ' Line 8: Saint and sinner. Line 14: sprawl and sprattle. Line 23: tapmost and towering Line 2 and 3 contains an assonance, sairly and rarely. These effects are cacophony.
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"To a Louse" Tone
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Robert Burns does a good job of portraying a very stern and straight forward attitude in this poem. Burns does include some humor, but can easily change the mood back to serious when needed.
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"To a Louse" Mood
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The mood throughout the poem was melancholy and angry. It is ironic that Robert Burns is slandering the louse when in the end he uses it to teach a lesson about the upper class. This poem was meant to make the readers think about the social differences in society.
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"The Lorelei" Author
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Heinrich Heine
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"The Lorelei" Summary
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The story tells of the titular female as a kind of siren luring shipmen to distraction with her singing, who then crash on the rocks in the riverbed.
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"The Lorelei" Purpose
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A rock on the eastern bank of the Rhine river near St. Goarshausen, Germany
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"The Lorelei" Imagery
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The peak of a mountain sparkles beneath the sun
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"The Lorelei" Personification
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At last the waves devoured the boat, and the boatman's cry
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"The Lorelei" Theme
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Appreciation of Nature: The air grows cool in the twilight, and softly the Rhine flows on; Emotion Versus Logic: "He's blind to the rocks around him; his eyes are for her alone.";
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"The World is Too Much With Us" Author
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William Wordsworth
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Author
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Samuel Taylor Colridge
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Purpose
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to find your way back to God
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Symbolism
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eye
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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" Mood
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pride
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"Kubla Khan" Author
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Samuel Taylor Colridge
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"Kubla Khan" Summary
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the palace of Kubla Khan
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"Kubla Khan" Purpose
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gardens to the sea
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"Kubla Khan" Imagery
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art and culture
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"Kubla Khan" Symbolism
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river dream
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"Kubla Khan" Metaphor
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Nature
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"Kubla Khan" Simile
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Man and the nature
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"Kubla Khan" Plot
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feel like we live in another world
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"Kubla Khan" Tone
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peaceful
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"Kubla Khan" Mood
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time
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"Kubla Khan" Theme
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time
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"She Walks in Beauty" Author
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Lord Byron
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"She Walks in Beauty" Summary
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a beautiful unnamed woman
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"She Walks in Beauty" Purpose
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Brunettes are pretty women
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"She Walks in Beauty" Imagery
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cheeks glowing, dwelling place
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"She Walks in Beauty" Simile
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blushes
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"She Walks in Beauty" Plot
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names less beauty
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"She Walks in Beauty" Tone
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excited, awe, loving
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"She Walks in Beauty" Mood
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flattered
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"She Walks in Beauty" Theme
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beauty and personality
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"When We Two Parted" Author
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Lord Byron
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"When We Two Parted" Imagery
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pale cheeks, cold kiss, cold hearted
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"When We Two Parted" Metaphor
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saying goodbye
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"When We Two Parted" Simile
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just awefull
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"When We Two Parted" Plot
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The author tells how they should have never met.
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"When We Two Parted" Tone
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anger, betrayal, sadness
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"When We Two Parted" Mood
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pity
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"When We Two Parted" Theme
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lost love
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"Ozymandias" Author
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Ozymandias" Summary
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The traveler told the speaker a story about an old, fragmented statue in the middle of the desert. The statue is broken apart, but you can still make out the face of a person. The face looks stern and powerful, like a ruler. The sculptor did a good job at expressing the ruler's personality. The ruler was a wicked guy, but he took care of his people.
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"Ozymandias" Purpose
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It's about the impermanence of all things and the relentless march of time. Even great King Ozymandias and his mighty empire become nothing more than dusty ruins and forgotten memories, like they never existed at all.
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"Ozymandias" Imagery
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The poet paints the images of the sculpture in the middle of the desert so that the reader can visualize the scene. One can see the huge legs of the statue standing out . Nearby lying sunken into the sand is the crushed face of the statue. Its expression has been left for time immemorial: frowning and wrinkled lip and sneer, representative of his rule.
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"Ozymandias" Tone
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Overall, the poem assumes a mocking tone. Percy Bysshe Shelley employs a number of techniques to emphasize the futility of man's desire to achieve immortality and he criticizes the arrogance and vanity of specifically those in power to assert their dominance and demand praise.
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"Ozymandias" Theme
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Contrasting the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they build with the pretensions to greatness
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"Ode to the West Wind" Author
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Ode to the West Wind" Summary
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The remote, impersonal character of the unseen Power behind Nature and strives to establish a personal relationship to it.
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"Ode to the West Wind" Symbolism
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Dead leaves are the prominence of a previous season
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"Ode to the West Wind" Theme
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The poem is depicted as an autumnal wind preparing the world for winter. As a result the poem is filled with images of death and decay.
