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WorksheetsLondon: Methods
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Language: Which of the following suggest that the people are trapped not just physically, but also mentally?
I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)
"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)
"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)
"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16) "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)
Language: Which of the following is an example of the poet's use of oxymoron?
I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)
"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)
"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)
"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)
Structure: Which of the following techniques does the poet use to emphasise the feeling of bleakness/despair that affects everyone and from which there seems to be no escape?
Oxymoron
Reference to the French Revolution
Repetition
Contrast
Language: What does the quote "chartered street [...] chartered Thames" from London show?
Blake has no idea where he is going
Even a river that is often a symbol of freedom is owned
Man has become a monster
They are good at making maps
Language: What does the noun 'marks' connote?
control
helplessness
ownership
scarring
Language: Identify the language device in 'marriage hearse'
Oxymoron
Simile
Metaphor
Personification
Language: Which noun phrase in the poem criticises the church?
The mind-forged manacles.
Blackening church.
Chimney sweepers cry.
Marks of weakness.
Language: What is it called when two opposite ideas/words are put together?
Anecdote
Hyperbole
Euphemism
Oxymoron
Form: Define Quatrain
a paragraph of four lines
a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes
a dance
a stanza of four lines with no rhyme
Language: Select the correct verb that is repeated twice in the second stanza.
tears
shouts
sobs
cry
Language: Which poetic device is used here, "hapless soldier's sigh,"
assonance
pathetic fallacy
sibilance
alliteration
Form: The poem as a...
irregular ABAB rhyme scheme
fixed ABAB rhyme scheme
rhyming couplet
Language: Select the correct poetic devices used here: "blasts," and "plagues"
sibilance
assonance
fricative
plosives
Form: What narrative is used by Blake?
Second person
First person
Third person
Structure: What is a cyclical narrative?
a story about a bicycle.
a story that has an opposite start and end and shows change.
a story that ends in the same place it began but the narrative never changes.
Language: What is the following an example of?
"mind-forged manacles"
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Structure: Which structural devices are used in the poem?
Enjambment
Caesura
End stop lines
Repetition
