eng lit paper 2 (poems and an inspector calls)

Question 1

give four quotes for the poem exposure

Answer 1

1. our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us
2. dawn massing in the east, her melancholy army
3. sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence
4. pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces

Question 2

give four quotes for the poem remains

Answer 2

1. sun-stunned, sand-smothered land
2. his bloody life in my bloody hands
3. and I swear I see every round as it rips through his life
4. and the drink and drugs won’t flush him out

Question 3

give four quotes for the poem war photographer

Answer 3

1. spools of suffering set out in ordered rows
2. though this were a church and he as a priest preparing to intone a Mass
3. a stranger’s features faintly start to twist before his eyes
4. a hundred of agonies in black and white

Question 4

give four quotes for the poem kamakaze

Answer 4

1. head of powerful of incantations
2. little fishing boats strung out like bunting
3. recounting it later to her children
4. the shore, salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel

Question 5

give four quotes for the poem london

Answer 5

1. marks of weakness, marks of woe
2. every blackening church appalls
3. soldiers sigh/runs in blood down palace walls
4. mind-forg’d manacles I hear
5. In every (x3) anaphora

Question 6

give four quotes for the poem charge of the light brigade

Answer 6

1. into the valley of death
2. into the jaws of death, into the mouth of hell
3. volleyed and thundered, stormed at with shot and shell
4. their not to make reply, theirs not to reason why theirs but to do or die

Question 7

give an example of inspector calls quotes for Mr Birling

Answer 7

1. the titanic, she sets sail next week, unsinkable, absolutely unsinkable
2. a man has to make his own way - has to look after himself
3. she was causing trouble in the works, i felt quite justified.
4. you’re not the kind of father a chap can go to when he is in troule

Question 8

give an example of inspector calls quotes for Mrs Birling

Answer 8

1. as if a girl of that sort would refuse money
2. when you are married, you will realise that men with important work to do sometimes have to spend nearly all of their time and energy one theirs business
3. i didn’t like her manner
4. I’ve done nothing wrong and you know it
5. you’re not the type, you don’t get drunk

2. you’ll realize that men with important work to do […] nearly all their time and energy on their business

Question 9

give an example of inspector calls quotes for the Inspector

Answer 9

1. public men, Mr Birling, have responsibilities as well as privileges
2. one Eva Smith has gone but there are millions and million and millions if Eva Smiths and John Smiths
3. if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught in blood and fire and anguish
4. we are members of one body. We are responsible for each other

Question 10

give an example of inspector calls quotes for Sheila

Answer 10

1. but these girls aren’t cheap labour - they’re people
2. yes, that’s what you say
3. if i could help her now i would

2. I should jolly well think so, Gerald I’d hate you to know all about port - like one of these purple-faced old men

Question 11

give an example of inspector calls quotes for Eric

Answer 11

1. It’s what happens to the girl and what we all did to her that matters
2. i have gathered that he does drink pretty hard
3. why shouldn’t they try for higher wages
4. is was in the state when a chap easily turns nasty

Question 12

give an example of inspector calls quotes for Gerald

Answer 12

1. she was young and pretty and warm-hearted […] I became at once the most important person in her life
2. she didn’t blame me at all. I wish to God she had now, maybe I’d feel better about it
3. I was awfully busy at the works all that time

Question 13

give four quotes for the poem My last Duchess

Answer 13

1. Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed/At starting, is my object
2. Notice Neptune, though,/Taming a sea-horse
3. and I choose/Never to stoop.
4. I gave commands;/Then all smiles stopped together.

Question 14

give four quotes for the poem Ozymandias

Answer 14

1. Look on my works, ye Mighty and despair
2. Sneer of cold command
3. colossal wreck, boundless and bare
4. The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed

Question 15

give four quotes for the poem The Prelude

Answer 15

1. The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge
2. Like a living thing,/strode after me.
3. With trembling oars I turned,
4. There hung a darkness, call it solitude/Or blank desertion.