Poetry

Question 1

Give one quote from ozymandias that shows imagery?

Answer 1

1. Traveller from an antique land
2. Round the decay of that colossal wreck

Question 2

Give one quote that shows sound in ozymandias?

Answer 2

1. Two vast trunkless legs of stone, stand in the desert
2. The whole poem contains sibilance

Question 3

In ozymandias what length sentences are used and what does this say about the kings power?

Answer 3

Long sentences shows the kings previous power

Question 4

In London the streets are repeatedly described as ___.

Answer 4

Chartered

Question 5

“Marks of weakness, marks of woe” is an example of what technique?- London

Answer 5

Anaphora

Question 6

The “w” sound used in London echoes what kind of feeling?

Answer 6

Sadness

Question 7

In London the church is described as turning what colour?

Answer 7

Black

Question 8

Whose cry can be heard in the poem London?

Answer 8

Chimney sweepers

Question 9

What does the willow tree in the prelude foreshadow?

Answer 9

Sadness and something bad

Question 10

What is summer associated with

Answer 10

Beauty and youth

Question 11

In the prelude what does the repeated “L” sound show?

Answer 11

Calm and peace

Question 12

The rule of 3 is used in the prelude. What is the quote?

Answer 12

No familiar shapes, no pleasant images of trees, no colours of green fields

Question 13

In my last duchess what is the technique used on the end of every line and what does it show

Answer 13

Rhyming couplets which can be associated with a couple but here it shows dukes power

Question 14

What technique is used here and what does it show “then all smiles stopped, there she stands as if alive”

Answer 14

Alliteration- the hissing sound expresses the duke is proud to have killed his duchess and thinks it shows his power

Question 15

What metaphor shows the duke seeing himself as a god like figure?

Answer 15

“Notice Neptune, taming a sea horse”- Neptune is the god of sea and his duchess is an animal

Question 16

What 2 quotes does Tennyson use in Charge to show graphic imagery and what does it show?

Answer 16

“Mouth of hell” “valley of death” scares the reader as hell in Christian England a big no no

Question 17

Where does Tennyson use sibilance in charge and what does it show?

Answer 17

“Stormed at with shot and shell”- it brings the soundscape of the battle to reality for the reader

Question 18

What number is constantly repeated in charge and what does it show ?

Answer 18

“Noble 600”-repetition emphasis their bravery so they won’t forget their sacrifice

Question 19

What simile is used exposure to describe the men and what does it show?

Answer 19

“Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles”- the wind causes a twitch like a dying man

Question 20

What question does Owen direct at the leaders of the war and how does he answer it?

Answer 20

“What are we doing”
“Is it that we are dying?”

Question 21

Owen uses 2 pieces of sibilance in the poem to mimic the wind. What are the quotes?

Answer 21

“Merciless iced east winds that knive us” “silence, sentries whisper, curious, nervous”

Question 22

Owen uses a metaphor to to describe how the men feel. What is it?

Answer 22

“Slowly our ghosts drag home”

Question 23

What words does heaney use to create a semantic field of violence?

Answer 23

Semantic field- “pummelled, exploded, bombarded”

Question 24

Heaney uses assonance and a smilie to describe the wind. What is the quote he uses?

Answer 24

“Spits like a tame cat turned savage.”

Question 25

Heaney uses what type of verse to show the lack of control?

Answer 25

Blank verse

Question 26

“Bullets smacking the belly out the air” is an example of what technique in bayonet charge?

Answer 26

Personification

Question 27

How does Hughes make the reader feel disgusted in bayonet charge by using sibilance?

Answer 27

“Open silent its eyes standing out”- vivid imagery used

Question 28

How does ted hughes shock the reader at the beginning of bayonet charge?

Answer 28

By starting the poem in media res

Question 29

Which quote shows the soldiers lack of regard for human life in remains?

Answer 29

“Tosses his guts back into his body then carted off in the back of a lorry”

Question 30

How does Armitage describe the land in remains?

Answer 30

“Sun stunned, sand smothered land”

Question 31

Which technique used in remains echoes the soldiers shell shock?

Answer 31

Anaphora - “I see, I see”- soldier can’t get over what he saw

Question 32

How does Jane weir foreshadow the sons death in poppies?

Answer 32

“War graves before you left” she connects her son leaving with death

Question 33

Weir uses an extended metaphor to show the split from her son. Which quote shows this?

Answer 33

“After you’d gone into your bedroom I released a single dove from its cage”, “later a SINGLE dove flew from the pear tree”

Question 34

In poppies weir describes the mother as having “sellotape bandaged around her hand”- what does this show?

Answer 34

Shows her hands are tied and she’s turned everyday speech into military remarks

Question 35

Weir uses sibilance and plosives in poppies. These sounds contrast each other. Why does she do this?

Answer 35

Plosives show anger her son is joining the army but later the sibilance shows her sadness and grievance after he’s gone

Question 36

Why does weir take many pauses in her poem?

Answer 36

To make it as if the mother is coming o terms thinking of her son and grieving for him

Question 37

“Hundreds of graves in black and white” is a quote used by Duffy in war photographer. What technique is used here and what does it show?

Answer 37

Hyperbolic adjective which shows the immunity to the trauma the photographer has

Question 38

In stanza 1 Duffy uses sibilance. Why is this appropriate?

Answer 38

It is appropriate as she is talking about churches

Question 39

What is special about the cities Duffy names in war photographer?

Answer 39

They have all witnessed conflict but are stated in a plosive voice to suggest anger and disgust.

Question 40

Dharker constantly mentions paper in tissue. Why does she do this and what technique is this?

Answer 40

Extended metaphor to show that paper constantly links to conflicts we face in life

Question 41

The whole of tissue is written in free verse. Why?

Answer 41

To show the irregularity of our lives but also the flimsy nature of paper

Question 42

Dharker uses soft sounds in stanza 3. What does this mimick?

Answer 42

The sounds associated with paper that reflects flow and flow of life

Question 43

What technique is used in “dem tell me, dem tell me” and what does it show?

Answer 43

Anaphora- it remphasis the anger and control white people have over society

Question 44

What does Constance and plosives show in checking out my history?

Answer 44

Shows anger and that information has been hidden hidden and distorted

Question 45

What metaphors in comh shows irritance and then hope?

Answer 45

Tousaintt de thorn, tousaint de beacon

Question 46

What metaphor shows that rumens sees her city as fragile?

Answer 46

“Bright filled paperweight”

Question 47

“Graceful slopes, glow ever clearer” shows rumens sees her city as somewhere that is what?

Answer 47

Gentle

Question 48

Free verse shows what about the poem emigree?

Answer 48

The fluid nature of her memories

Question 49

What is the juxtaposition at the start of kamikaze?

Answer 49

“Embarked at sunrise”- the journey is only one way

Question 50

What plosives echoes the pilot’s determination to stay alive?

Answer 50

“Built, pearl-grey pebbles”

Question 51

What does embjament in kamikaze help the reader do in the poem?

Answer 51

Follow the pilots trail of thought

Question 52

Kamikaze ends with the metaphor “better way to die”. What does this echo about the soldiers life?

Answer 52

That the physical death might have been better than the social death

Question 53

which 6 poems show power of humans?

Answer 53

ozymandias, london, my last duchess, storm on the island, checking out me history, tissue

Question 54

what 5 poems show power of nature?

Answer 54

Ozymandias, The Preulude, Exposure, Storm On the Island, Tissue

Question 55

What 5 poems show the reality and effects of conflict?

Answer 55

Charge of the light brigade, Exposure, Bayonet Charge, War Photographer, Remains

Question 56

What 4 poems show loss and absence?

Answer 56

London, Exposure, the emigree, kamikaze

Question 57

What 6 poems show effect of memory?

Answer 57

Prelude, MLD, war photographer, remains, emigree, kamikaze

Question 58

What 6 poems show power of identity?

Answer 58

Kamikaze, poppies, MLD, charge, tissue, emigree

Question 59

What 8 poems show individual experiences?

Answer 59

London, prelude, bayonet charge, remains, poppies, war photographer, emigree, kamikaze