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Edexcel 4ET1 Poetry Anthology

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which of these poems IS a dramatic monologue?

a)

Blessing

b)

Prayer Before Birth

c)

Piano

d)

La Belle Dame sand Merci

2.

Which of these poems is a sonnet?

a)

War Photographer

b)

If-

c)

Search for my Tongue

d)

Remember

3.

What is enjambment?

a)

very long lines

b)

meaning runs on into the next line

c)

meaning is deliberately unclear

d)

alternate lines rhyme

4.

What is caesura?

a)

A break in the line

b)

Punctuation at the end of the line

c)

An absence of punctuation

d)

Lines of alternating rhyme

5.

Which of these poems is NOT written in first person narrative?

a)

Prayer Before Birth

b)

Half-past Two

c)

War Photographer

d)

Piano

6.

Which poem is NOT written using third person narrative?

a)

If-

b)

The Tyger

c)

Blessing

7.

Which poem contains this personification: 'Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay'

a)

Do not go gentle ...

b)

My last duchess

c)

Sonnet 116

d)

Poem at 39

8.

Which poem contains this metaphor: 'It is the star to every wandering bark'

a)

La Belle ...

b)

Blessing

c)

Remember

d)

Sonnet 116

9.

Which poem contains these imperatives: 'provide me', 'rehearse me', 'forgive me'?

a)

Remember

b)

Prayer Before Birth

c)

Hide and Seek

d)

Do not go gentle ...

10.

Name the poem that does NOT relate to the theme of loss.

a)

La Belle Dame ...

b)

Remember

c)

Half-Caste

d)

Poem at 39

11.

Which poem does NOT use an imperative, commanding tone?

a)

Hide and Seek

b)

Prayer Before Birth

c)

Half-Caste

d)

If -

12.

Name the poem that has the following onomatopoeic phrase: 'in the boom of the tingling strings'

a)

Piano

b)

Blessing

c)

My Last Duchess

d)

War Photographer

13.

What is 'notimeforthatnowtime' an example of?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Pun

c)

Neologism

d)

Dialect

14.

Which poem uses non-standard English?

a)

Search for my tongue

b)

La Belle Dame ...

c)

The Tyger

d)

Half-Caste

15.

Which poem is the sexiest in the anthology?

a)

My Last Duchess

b)

La Belle Dame...

c)

Sonnet 116

d)

Search for my Tongue

16.

Which poem features the artwork of Fra Pandolf?

a)

TheTyger

b)

La Belle Dame...

c)

War Photographer

d)

My Last Duchess

17.

This is an example of what technique: 'the bud opens, the bud opens in my mouth'?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Assonance

d)

Sibilance

18.

'Burning bright' is an example of what technique?

a)

Onomatopoeia

b)

Rhyme

c)

Alliteration

d)

Personification

19.

'As though this was a church' is an example of what technique?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Simile

c)

Caesura

d)

Personification

20.

'Love's not Time's fool' is an example of what technique?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Repetition

c)

Adjectives

d)

Personification