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GCSE English Literature: Unseen Poetry - AQA - COMPLETED Flashcards

FLASHCARDS MADE MYSELF WITH AID OF SOURCE BOOKS: GCSE ENGLISH AQA UNSEEN POETRY BOOKS 1 AND 2 BY CGP

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How long will Paper 2 last in total?

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2 hours 15 minutes

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What is the topic of Section A of Paper 2 in your exam?

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Modern Text - Lord of the Flies OR An Inspector Calls - one question on the text studied

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What is the topic of Section B of Paper 2 in your exam?

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Poetry - one question on the poetry cluster you have studied from the anthology (Power and Conflict OR Love and Relationships)

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What is the topic of Section C of Paper 2 in your exam?

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Unseen Poetry - two questions on poems you have not read before

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How long should you spend on the Unseen Poetry section?

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45 minutes

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How many questions in the Unseen Poetry section?

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2

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What will the first unseen poetry question cover?

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It is worth 24 marks and you will analyse 1 poem. The answer should cover: a) what the poem is about - the poem’s message, themes and ideas b) how the poet uses form, structure and language to communicate these ideas

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What will the second unseen poetry question cover?

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It is worth 8 marks (1/3 of question 1) and you will compare both poems. The answer should cover: a) similarities and differences b) techniques the poets have used such as form, structure and language

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What are the 5 steps to analysing unseen poems?

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  1. Work out what the poem is about
  2. Identify the purpose, theme or message
  3. Explore the emotions, moods or feelings
  4. Identify the techniques used in the poem
  5. Include your own thoughts and feelings on the poem
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What is alliteration?

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Where words that are close together start with the same sound, e.g. “bumbling bees”

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What is ambiguity?

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Where a word or phrase has two or more possible interpretations

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What is anaphora?

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Where a word or phrase is repeated at the start of sentences or lines

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What is assonance?

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When words share the same vowel sound but their consonants are different, e.g. “anxiety stirred by a lOOse tOOth”

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What is blank verse?

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Poetry that is written in iambic pentameter and does not rhyme

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What is caesura?

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A pause in a line of poetry, e.g. the full stop in “It couldn’t lie. Fell thick”

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What is plural for caesura?

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Caesurae

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What is colloquial language?

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Informal language that sounds like ordinary speech, e.g. “too bloody deep for me”

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What is consonance?

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Repetition of a consonant sound in nearby words, e.g. “CraCKed hands that aCHEd”

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What is cyclical structure?

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Where key elements at the start of the text repeat themselves at the end

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What is dialect?

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A variation of a language spoken by people from a particular place or background. Dialects might include different words or sentence constructions, e.g. “So mek dem send”

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What is direct address?

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When the narrator speaks directly to the reader or another, e.g. “What is’t ye do?”

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What is direct speech?

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The actual words that are said by someone

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What does emotive mean?

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Something that makes you feel a particular emotion

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What is empathy?

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The ability to imagine and understand someone else’s feelings or experiences

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What is end-stopping?

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Finishing a line of poetry with the end of a phrase or sentence, usually marked by punctuation

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What is enjambment?

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When a sentence or phrase runs over from one line or stanza to the next

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What is first person perspective?

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Writing from the perspective of the narrator, written using words like ‘I’, ‘me’, ‘we’, and ‘our’

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What is form?

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The type of poem, e.g. a sonnet or ballad, and its features, like number of lines, rhyme and rhythm

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What is free verse?

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Poetry that doesn’t rhyme and has no regular rhythm or line length

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What are half-rhymes?

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Words that have a similar, but not identical, end sound, e.g. “bread” and “shade”

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What is hyperbole?

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The use of exaggeration to emphasise a point

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What is iambic pentameter?

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Poetry with a metre of ten syllables - five of them stressed, and five unstressed. The stress falls on every second syllable, e.g. “For THOUGH from OUT our BOURNE of TIME and PLACE”

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What is iambic tetrameter?

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Like iambic pentameter but with a metre of eight syllables - four stressed and four unstressed, e.g. “We SLOWly DROVE - He KNEW no HASTE”

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What is imagery?

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Language that creates a picture in your mind. It includes metaphors, similes and personification

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What is internal rhyme?

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When two or more words in the same line rhyme, e.g. “On all at STAKE, can UNDERTAKE”

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What is irony?

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When words are used to imply the opposite of what they normally mean. It can also mean when there is a difference between what people expect and what actually happens

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What is juxtaposition?

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When a poet puts two ideas, events, characters or descriptions close to each other to encourage the reader to contrast them, e.g. the juxtaposition of “Sing” and “Sigh” in “Solitude”

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What is a metaphor?

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A way of describing something by saying that it is something else, e.g. “Narrow aisles of pain”. An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is carried on, e.g. the tattoos metaphor in “Tattoos”

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What is a metre?

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The arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables to create rhythm in a line of poetry

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What are monosyllables?

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Words with only one syllable, e.g. “Now I have lost you”

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What is mood?

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The feel or atmosphere of a poem, e.g. humorous, peaceful, fearful

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What is narrative?

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Writing that tells a story, e.g. “Horse Whisperer”

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What is narrative viewpoint?

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The perspective that a text is written from, e.g. first-person point of view

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What is the narrator?

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The person speaking the words, e.g. the narrator of ‘Listen Mr Oxford Don’ is an immigrant

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What is onomatopoeia?

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A word that sounds like the thing it is describing, e.g. “thud” or “whirr”

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What is an oxymoron?

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A phrase which appears to contradict itself, e.g. “fierce lovely water”

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What is pathetic fallacy?

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Giving human emotions to objects or aspects of nature in order to create a certain mood, e.g. “Time does not bring relief”, “the weeping of the rain” creates a mournful atmosphere

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What is a plosive?

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A short burst of sound made when you say a word containing the letters b, d, g, k, p or t

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What is a rhetorical question?

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A question that does not need an answer but is asked to make or emphasise a point, e.g. “What did I know, what did I know / of love’s austere and lonely offices?”

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What is personification?

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Describing a non-living thing as if it’s a person, e.g. “this rain had forgotten the sea”

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What is a Petrarchan sonnet?

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A form of sonnet in which the first eight lines have a regular ABBA rhyme scheme and introduce a problem, while the last six lines have a different rhyme scheme and solve the problem

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What are phonetic spellings?

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When words are spelt as they sound rather than with their usual spelling, e.g. “dem” instead of “them”. It is often used to show that someone is speaking with a certain accent or dialect

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What is a rhyme scheme?

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A pattern of rhyming words in a poem, e.g. “Crossing the Bar” as an ABAB rhyme scheme - this means that the first and third lines in each stanza rhyme, and so do the second and fourth lines

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What is a rhyming couplet?

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A pair of rhyming lines that are next to each other, e.g. lines 4 and 5 of “Listen Mr Oxford Don”

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What is rhythm?

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A pattern of sounds created by the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables

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What is a second person narrative?

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When the narrator talks directly to another person, written using words like “you”

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What is sensory language?

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Language that appeals to any of the five senses

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What is sibilance?

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Repetition of ‘s’ and ‘sh’ sounds, e.g. “O Scaly, Slippery, wet, Swift, Staring, wightS”

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What is a simile?

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A way of describing something by comparing it to something else, usually by using the words ‘like’ or ‘as’, e.g. “the tractor came over the fields like a warning”

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What is a sonnet?

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A form of a poem with fourteen lines, that usually follows a clear rhyme scheme

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What is a stanza?

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A group of lines in a poem

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What is structure?

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The order and arrangement of ideas and events in a poem, e.g. how it begins, develops and ends

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What is a syllable?

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A single unit of sound within a word, e.g. “all” has one syllable, “always” has two syllables

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What is symbolism?

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When an object stands for something else, e.g. the sunset in “Crossing the Bar” symbolises the end of the narrator’s life and the drums in “Beat! Beat! Drums!” symbolise war

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What is syntax?

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The arrangement of words in a sentence or phrase so that they make sense

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What is the theme of a poem?

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An idea or topic that is important in a poem, e.g. a poem could be based on the theme of love or conflict

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What is a third person narrative?

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When a poet writes about someone who isn’t the speaker, using written words like “he” or “she” or “they”

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What is tone?

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The mood or feelings suggested by the way the narrator writes, e.g. bitter, reflective, etc.

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What is voice?

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The characteristics of the person narrating the poem. Poems are usually written either using the poet’s voice, as if they’re speaking to you directly, or the voice of a character

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