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WorksheetsAQA Power and Conflict Poetry Cluster - General Revision
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 7mins
"Will't please you sit and look at her?" is from which poem?
My Last Duchess
Ozymandias
Charge of the Light Brigade
Remains
"Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" is from which poem?
Bayonet Charge
Remains
The Prelude
Poppies
What is the narrator of a poem called?
Author
Speaker
Narrator
Main character
Groups of lines are called ______________.
Paragraphs
Stanzas
What war did Wilfred Owen fight in?
WW2
WW1
Crimean War
Cold War
What war did Alfred Lord Tennyson fight in?
WW2
WW1
Crimean War
He didn't fight in a war
Did Ted Hughes fight in World War 1?
Yes
No
Unsure
He fought in the Boer War
What war is the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' about?
WW2
WW1
Crimean War
Cold War
Who wrote 'Exposure'?
Simon Armitage
Wilfred Owen
Carol Ann Duffy
Beatrice Garland
Who wrote 'Bayonet Charge'?
Ted Hughes
Percy Shelley
Carol Ann Duffy
Beatrice Garland
Which theme does 'Remains' deal with?
Power
Conflict
Which theme does 'Ozymandias' deal with?
Power
Conflict
Which theme does 'My Last Duchess' deal with?
Power
Conflict
Who wrote 'Remains'?
Ted Hughes
Carol Ann Duffy
Robert Browning
Simon Armitage
Who wrote 'Ozymandias'?
Ted Hughes
Percy Shelley
Robert Browning
Beatrice Garland
This poem talks about something that occurred in Japan during World War 2:
Exposure
Kamikaze
War Photographer
Which Poem was written by Seamus Heaney?
Kamikaze
My Last Dutchess
Exposure
Storm On The Island
Complete the line: "the merciless iced east winds that (a) us"
What is the correct definition of enjambment?
The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.
A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.
A pause near the middle of a line.
A group of lines forming the unit in a poem.
Roughly how many cavalrymen formed the Light Brigade?
300
400
500
600
Who wrote War Photographer?
Wilfred Owen
Carol Ann Duffy
William Wordsworth
Jane Weir
How could you define the language technique in this quotation? ‘The grim shape towered up between me and the stars’
Pathetic fallacy
Antithesis
Irony
Personification
“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”
Which poem is this line from?
London
Poppies
Exposure
Charge of the Light Brigade
Which poem?
“we turn back to our dying”
Ozymandias
Exposure
Remains
Poppies
Which poem?
“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“
Exposure
Poppies
Bayonet Charge
Charge of the Light Brigade
Which poem?
“released a song bird from its cage”
War Photographer
Poppies
Charge of the Light Brigade
Exposure
Where was John Agard born?
London
Guyana
Jamaica
United States
What dialect does Agard use in the poem?
Pidgin English
Standard English
Estuary English
Guyanese Creole
Creole means a language or dialect derived from one or more other (especially European) languages. What other word can mean this?
Pidgin
Pigeon
Patois
Patwa
Which poem?
'From Jamaica she travel far'
Storm on the Island
Ozymandias
Checking Out Me History
The Emigree
Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of a slave revolt...
who fought against the British in Guyana
who fought against the Russians in Crimea
who fought against the French in Haiti
who fought against Columbus and Spain
Nanny de Maroon helped to free slaves and fight the British in
Guyana
Jamaica
South Africa
the USA
Form: What is significant about Agard's use of stanzas?
He uses a mixture of stanza forms to suggest he is not conforming to the language rules he has been taught.
He uses the same style throughout to show how he wants to conform to the language rules he has been taught.
It is uniformed to suggest language is universal.
It looks neat to show how we should present ourselves at all times.
Form: What is significant about the Caribbean history stanzas?
They have longer lines and use Standard English. Agard done this to make them see more serious.
They have shorter lines and broken syntax (grammar). Agard done this to make them seem more serious.
They are irregular and don't make sense. Agard done this to ridicule his heritage.
They are just normal and don't differ to show how his culture is more important than others.
Which of the following are oral poetry features?
Repetition
Chanting
Strong rhythm
Standard English
Phonetic spelling
Which of these poems is NOT based on the poet's own experiences?
Exposure
Extract from the Prelude
Remains
Checking Out Me History
Which one of these poems is a sonnet?
London
Exposure
Charge of the Light Brigade
Ozymandias
Who wrote Kamikaze?
William Blake
Imtiaz Dharker
Carol Rumens
Beatrice Garland
Why is Extract from the Prelude written in blank verse?
Wordsworth used rhyme and rhythm - it is not blank verse
It sounds grander than other forms of writing
It makes the poem sound more like a story, as pentameter resembles natural speech
Wordsworth wanted his poem to sound rhythmical, like a march or a nursery rhyme
