Which war does 'A Wife in London' focus on?

• Boer War

• Bosnian War

• Gulf War

• Hundred Years War

In A Wife in London, what literary technique has been used in the quote 'she sits in the tawny vapour'?

• pathetic fallacy
• onomatopoeia
• simile
• personification

Who wrote 'A Wife in London

• Thomas Hardy
• Thomas Harding
• Simon Armitage
• Wilfred Owen

Complete the quote "His hand, whom the ______now knows:"

• Earth

• Worm

• Devil

• Lord

The poem has....

• 2 sections - the tragedy and the irony.

• 4 stanzas

• 2 stanzas

• 2 sections - the tragedy and the past

Hardy uses a simile in the first stanza to compare the cold streetlight to a '_______ _________'

• Burning candle

• Waning Taper

• Slowing flame

• Dying star

The pace quickens in stanza two. Which words show this? (MORE THAN ONE!)

• 'Cracks'

• 'Messenger'

• 'Sharply'

• 'Flashed'

Which of the following best help to explain the quote: "Behind whose webby fold on fold..."

• Trapped and unable to escape

• Glued to her chair

• Pathetic fallacy

• Dramatic turning point (volta)

Which of the following best help to explain the quote: "Like a waning taper the street lamp glimmers cold..." - Pick two.

• Foreshadows how her husband's life was cut short

• Diminishing hope

• No time to process

• Dramatic turning point (volta)

Which of the following best help to explain the quote: "A messenger's knock cracks smartly, flashed news is in her hand..." - Pick two.

• yellowish fog

• Euphemism used to divert the horror

• No time to process

• Dramatic turning point (volta)