Poetry Mock Exam

Question 1

Prelude quotes

Answer 1

‘lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake’
‘my boat went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘over my thoughts there hung a darkness; call it solitude or blank desertion’

Question 2

Ozymandius quotes

Answer 2

‘two vast and trunkless legs of stone’
‘lone and level sands stretch far away’
‘king of kings’
‘shattered visage’

Question 3

Exposure quotes

Answer 3

‘sidelong flowing flakes that flock, pause and renew’
‘pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our faces’
‘ranks of shivering grey attack once more’

Question 4

Kamikaze quotes

Answer 4

‘little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea’
‘cairns of pearl grey pebbles’
‘cloud marked mackerel and feathery prawns’

Question 5

Storm on the Island Quotes

Answer 5

‘can rouse a tragic chorus in a gale’
‘the very windows, spits like a tame cat’
‘nor are their trees’