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London: Methods

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Language: Which of the following suggest that the people are trapped not just physically, but also mentally?

a)

I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)

b)

"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)

c)

"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)

d)

"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16) "And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)

2.

Language: Which of the following is an example of the poet's use of oxymoron?

a)

I wonder through each chartered street" (line 1)

b)

"And mark in every face I meet" ( Line 3)

c)

"The mind-forged manacles I hear" (line 8)

d)

"And blights with plagues the marriage hearse" (Line 16)

3.

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?

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Reference to the French Revolution

c)

Repetition

d)

Contrast

4.

Language: What does the quote "chartered street [...] chartered Thames" from London show?

a)

Blake has no idea where he is going

b)

Even a river that is often a symbol of freedom is owned

c)

Man has become a monster

d)

They are good at making maps

5.

Language: What does the noun 'marks' connote?

a)

control

b)

helplessness

c)

ownership

d)

scarring

6.

Language: Identify the language device in 'marriage hearse'

a)

Oxymoron

b)

Simile

c)

Metaphor

d)

Personification

7.

Language: Which noun phrase in the poem criticises the church?

a)

The mind-forged manacles.

b)

Blackening church.

c)

Chimney sweepers cry.

d)

Marks of weakness.

8.

Language: What is it called when two opposite ideas/words are put together?

a)

Anecdote

b)

Hyperbole

c)

Euphemism

d)

Oxymoron

9.

Form: Define Quatrain

a)

a paragraph of four lines

b)

a stanza of four lines, especially one having alternate rhymes

c)

a dance

d)

a stanza of four lines with no rhyme

10.

Language: Select the correct verb that is repeated twice in the second stanza.

a)

tears

b)

shouts

c)

sobs

d)

cry

11.

Language: Which poetic device is used here, "hapless soldier's sigh,"

a)

assonance

b)

pathetic fallacy

c)

sibilance

d)

alliteration

12.

Form: The poem as a...

a)

irregular ABAB rhyme scheme

b)

fixed ABAB rhyme scheme

c)

rhyming couplet

13.

Language: Select the correct poetic devices used here: "blasts," and "plagues"

a)

sibilance

b)

assonance

c)

fricative

d)

plosives

14.

Form: What narrative is used by Blake?

a)

Second person

b)

First person

c)

Third person

15.

Structure: What is a cyclical narrative?

a)

a story about a bicycle.

b)

a story that has an opposite start and end and shows change.

c)

a story that ends in the same place it began but the narrative never changes.

16.

Language: What is the following an example of?


"mind-forged manacles"

a)

Metaphor

b)

Simile

c)

Personification

d)

Onomatopoeia

17.

Structure: Which structural devices are used in the poem?

a)

Enjambment

b)

Caesura

c)

End stop lines

d)

Repetition