Holy thursday (Experience)

Question 1

Metre

Answer 1

Iambic - emphasis on ‘their’

Question 2

When is Holy Thursday and what does it celebrate?

Answer 2

Ascension day - the day before Easter

Question 3

‘It’s a holy thing —-> to

Answer 3

Stressed/ iambic pentameter

Question 4

Fruitful

Answer 4

Lamb imagery - farming - fertile

Question 5

Variation of

Answer 5

Ballad stanza

Question 6

Stanza three - lines 1/3 - ‘and their’

Answer 6

Anaphora

Question 7

Rhyme scheme

Answer 7

ABAB

Question 8

Half rhymes

Answer 8

Quatrains 3/4

Question 9

Picture

Answer 9

Child who has fallen down, children weeping

Question 10

Binary opposites of

Answer 10

Innocence and experience

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Question 11

Symbolism of

Answer 11

Thorn which represents suffering

Question 12

Repetition in

Answer 12

Final verse

Question 13

‘Poverty the mind appall’

Answer 13

Dichotomy of wealth and poverty, those who are rich and those who have nothing
- poverty not just in material terms but in spiritual - those who make money out of the poor

Question 14

Appall

Answer 14

Means damage and bring down to death, also the rich who suffer because they are spiritually poor, under a corrupt monarchy

Question 15

Punctuation

Answer 15

Punctuated in a way the previous isn’t - emphasise his outrage (exclamation marks and question marks)

Question 16

Wants a more

Answer 16

Democratic way of wealth

Question 17

‘Usurious’

Answer 17

Usury: charging or excessive interest

• suggests the feeding of the charity children was not without benefit to the givers
• making them work
• uninformed crocodiles as ‘walking advertisements’ for the charity

Question 18

It is a land of poverty

Answer 18

Applies not just to the poor but to the moral poverty of the Country which made this charity necessary