GCSE English Literature and Language: Conflict words!
When you write about Conflict in your essays on poetry or when studying texts or even producing your own stories, it is useful to have a range of words to deepen your self-expression.
But before you read the list please remember to check the tense of the poem or story and to ask questions about the situation of the protagonist. Are they speaking from a position of authority and power or are they a victim, deprived of agency and potency? Where are they and why and how does this affect their state of mind and expression? And always, always, look for Irony!
Retrospective/Introspective/Deflecting
Recollection
Remembrance
Commemoration
Celebration
Vividly recollected
Intensified
Uncomfortable/Colluding/Complicit
Destructive/Self-justifying/Egotism
Disparaging
Reminiscence
Reassembling
Retrieval
Nostalgia
Conscience-ridden
Repentance
Catharsis
Dissembling/Propaganda/Obfuscating/Obscuring
Dismantling memories
Delayed revelation
Repression
Denial
Repentance
Reanimation of the past
Animation of the world
Hopelessness
Resignation
Despair
Introspection
Deflection
Fearful/weakened/debilitated
Terrified/Destabilised/Unnerved/Powerless
Nauseated
Self-recognition
Moment of being
Epiphany
Revenge
Retribution
Forgotten
Voiceless/Unrepresented/Commodified
Powerless
Victimised/Mere Pawns
Objectified
Metonymy
Synecdoche
Humiliation/Shame/Mortification
Blighted
Guilt alleviated/assuaged
Confession
Revelation
Expose truth
Propaganda
Untruth/Fiction/Fabrication/Propaganda
Forgotten/Overlooked
Disenfranchised
Violence/Graphic/Explicit ferocity
Visceral details/Sensory details
Subjugation of soldiers/Submission/Enslavement
Futility
Despair
Disaffection
Loss of ideals
Patriotism overthrown/Fanaticism
Disillusion
Disenchantment
Disorderly/Disorganised/Muddled
Impoverished
Alienated
Estranged
