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Section A

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45 minutes

36 marks

Answer 1 question from 2

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What counts as structure in poetry:

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Order of stanzas

Openings and endings

Rhyming

Rhythm

Repetition

Enjambment

Verse length

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Unseen poem time limit:

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30 minutes

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Structure of unseen question:

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About 3 PEAs

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What to do in unseen question:

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Analyse quotes

Explain effect on reader

Mention poets ideas

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What to do in the exam for the unseen question:

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Read and annotate

3 minutes annotating the poem - at least 3 quotes

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Sonnet 116 form:

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Sonnet - popular about love

Made up of three quatrains with rhyming couplet at end

Regular rhyme - order and completeness

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Sonnet 116 structure -

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Quatrains discuss same idea of love being unchanged

Final couplet narrators guarantee that he’s telling truth

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Sonnet 116 feelings and attitudes -

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Devotion

Constancy

True love

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To his coy mistress feelings and attitudes:

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Impatience

Urgency

Reluctance

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To his coy mistress form -

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First person narrator - direct appeal to his coy mistress of the title

Rhyming couplets which make poem witty and well constructed

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To his coy mistress structure -

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Traditional structure for arguments

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To his coy mistress hyperbole:

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Mocks mistress romantic ideas about love

Sense of frustration shown through irony and exaggeration

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To his coy mistress feelings and attitudes:

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Impatience

Urgency

Reluctance

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The farmers bride form:

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Dramatic monologue, mostly iambic tetrameter

Rhyme scheme that varies

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The farmers bride - feelings and attitudes

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Frustration

Desire

Fear

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Sonnet 43 form -

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Petrarchan form, an octave followed by a sestet

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Sonnet 43 - feelings and attitudes

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Deep and lasting love

Unselfish love

Virtue

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Sister Maude - feelings and attitudes

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Betrayal

Jealously

Spitefulness

Cold anger

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Sonnet 116 form:

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Sonnet - popular about love

Made up of three quatrains with rhyming couplet at end

Regular rhyme - order and completeness

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Sonnet 116 structure -

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Quatrains discuss same idea of love being unchanged

Final couplet narrators guarantee that he’s telling truth

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Sonnet 116 feelings and attitudes -

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Devotion

Constancy

True love

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To his coy mistress feelings and attitudes:

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Impatience

Urgency

Reluctance

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To his coy mistress form -

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First person narrator - direct appeal to his coy mistress of the title

Rhyming couplets which make poem witty and well constructed

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25
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To his coy mistress structure -

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Traditional structure for arguments

26
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To his coy mistress hyperbole:

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Mocks mistress romantic ideas about love

Sense of frustration shown through irony and exaggeration

27
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To his coy mistress feelings and attitudes:

A

Impatience

Urgency

Reluctance

28
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The farmers bride form:

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Dramatic monologue, mostly iambic tetrameter

Rhyme scheme that varies

29
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The farmers bride - feelings and attitudes

A

Frustration

Desire

Fear

30
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Sonnet 43 form -

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Petrarchan form, an octave followed by a sestet

31
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Sonnet 43 - feelings and attitudes

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Deep and lasting love

Unselfish love

Virtue

32
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Sister Maude - feelings and attitudes

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Betrayal

Jealously

Spitefulness

Cold anger

33
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Nettles - feelings and attitudes

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Anger

Revenge

Frustration

Tenderness

34
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Born yesterday - feelings and attitudes

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Tenderness

Scorn

Realism

35
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The manhunt - feelings and attitudes

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Caring

Patience

Pain

36
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Hour - feelings and attitudes

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Cherishing the moment

Strong belief

Physical pleasure

37
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In Paris With You - feelings and attitudes

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Self pity

Bitterness

Humour

Lust

38
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QuickDraw - feelings and attitudes

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Hurt

Expectation

Tension

39
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Ghazal - feelings and attitudes

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Intense love

Playfulness

Pleasure

40
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Brothers - feelings and attitudes

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Frustration

Guilt

Regret

41
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Praise song for my mother - feelings and attitudes

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Gratitude

Joy

Praise

42
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Harmonium - feelings and attitudes

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Speechlessness

Humour

Sadness

43
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Theme - Different feelings about each other

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To his coy mistress

The farmers bride

44
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Theme - Protective relationships

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The manhunt

Nettles

Born yesterday

45
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Theme - Mean and cruel relationships

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Sister Maude

QuickDraw

46
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Theme- Inconsiderate

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In Paris With You

Brothers

47
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Theme - bitter relationships

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In Paris With You

Sister Maude

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Theme - regret and negative emotions

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Brothers

The Farmers Bride

49
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Theme - romantic love

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Manhunt

Hour

Ghazal

50
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Poetic devices including Enjambment:

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To his coy mistress

Hour

51
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Poems with less strict patterns:

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QuickDraw

Harmonium

52
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Beginnings that set the tone:

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Sister Maude

Born Yesterday

In Paris With You

53
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Closing couplets that sum up the poems:

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Sonnet 116

Praise song for my mother

54
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Surprising closing lines:

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The farmers bride

Brothers

55
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Poems in first person:

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Manhunt

Hour

56
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Rhyme to add force:

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Ghazal

Born yesterday

57
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Rhyme that enhances feeling of poem:

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Sister Maude

Praise song for my mother

The farmers bride

58
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Poems that use natural imagery:

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Ghazal

Nettles

Praise Song for my mother

59
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Irony in poems:

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Nettles

Brothers

60
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Poems that use sarcasm to make a point:

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To his coy mistress

Born yesterday

61
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Poems that create an unhappy mood:

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The farmers bride

Harmonium

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