Context
Setting with a reputation as a rich, fashionable and exotic city with stunning architecture, and regarded as ‘the marketplace of the world’.
What is Venice?
Pure and clean as the cry of a baby, / And the universe slide from my side.
Simile / metaphor - internal rhyme
Something that deviates from what is expeced.
What is an anomaly?
Form that is characterised by shifting between complexity and dark, psychological drama, with straightforward comic material.
What is a problem play?
I have been hailed as the greatest poet of all time, yet my education did not extend past grammar school.
I served successive terms as prime minister from 1979 to 1990 where by my conservative politics was met with passionate opposition.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
"bad mothers and wicked stepmothers and oppressive aunts, like the one in Jane Eyre, and nasty female teachers, and depraved governesses, and evil grannies."
What is accumulative listing and intertextual reference.
Texts are a deliberate construction to communicate the purpose and ideas of the composer, and the values they believe are important.
What is representation?
I am the eldest daughter, mother of a young child and wife. I may be mannerly and self-deprecating, but I can be political and have a way of delivering hard truths.
Who is Setsuko?
I was born in 1932 and died 1963.
Who is Sylvia Plath?
What is Modernism?
‘How far that little candle throws his beams! / So shines a good deed in a naughty world.’
What is personification?
A comparison of the way in which texts across different contextual landscapes portray the universality of different keystone values in our humanity.
What is Module A: Textual Conversations?
Text in conversation, "Does not my heat astound you! And my light!", and, "You were overloaded. I said nothing. / I said nothing."
What is Plath's, Fever 103 and Hughes's "Fever"?
Growing up in Surrey England, my writing has been considered to be part of the post-colonial literary landscape.
Who is Kazuo Ishiguro?
A person who loans money at an unreasonably high rate of interest.
Who is an usurer?
"Pause at the bridge of hesitation and look back towards the remains of the pleasure district."
What is symbolic of the past?
Texts invite the responder to ... (3 responses required)
See the world differently, challenge assumptions, ignite new ideas.
I may not have the biggest part, but my actions have consequences. I like to have a good time, but promise more than I can give.
Who is Bassanio?
Deeply influenced by the natural world, my early writing was influenced by the Romantic style, yet my later work reflected much more modernist and post-modernist influences.
Who is Ted Hughes?
Following this event in 1941, Japan’s territorial possession expanded to encompass Hong Kong, the Phillipines, and other parts of Asia.
The bombing of Pearl Harbour.
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa
What is synecdoche?
The unity of a text; its coherent use of form and language to produce an integrated whole in terms of meaning and value.
What is textual integrity?
Self-deception, the role of art in politics, progress and tradition, intergeneration conflict, collective and individual identity, existential questions of significance.
What are the themes of "Artist of the Floating World"?
My work emphasises authenticity and the inner world of the individual.
Who is Sylvia Plath?