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AQA Power and Conflict Poetry Cluster - General Revision

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

"Will't please you sit and look at her?" is from which poem?

a)

My Last Duchess

b)

Ozymandias

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Remains

2.

"Sun-stunned, sand-smothered land" is from which poem?

a)

Bayonet Charge

b)

Remains

c)

The Prelude

d)

Poppies

3.

What is the narrator of a poem called?

a)

Author

b)

Speaker

c)

Narrator

d)

Main character

4.

Groups of lines are called ______________.

a)

Paragraphs

b)

Stanzas

5.

What war did Wilfred Owen fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

Cold War

6.

What war did Alfred Lord Tennyson fight in?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

He didn't fight in a war

7.

Did Ted Hughes fight in World War 1?

a)

Yes

b)

No

c)

Unsure

d)

He fought in the Boer War

8.

What war is the 'Charge of the Light Brigade' about?

a)

WW2

b)

WW1

c)

Crimean War

d)

Cold War

9.

Who wrote 'Exposure'?

a)

Simon Armitage

b)

Wilfred Owen

c)

Carol Ann Duffy

d)

Beatrice Garland

10.

Who wrote 'Bayonet Charge'?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Percy Shelley

c)

Carol Ann Duffy

d)

Beatrice Garland

11.

Which theme does 'Remains' deal with?

a)

Power

b)

Conflict

12.

Which theme does 'Ozymandias' deal with?

a)

Power

b)

Conflict

13.

Which theme does 'My Last Duchess' deal with?

a)

Power

b)

Conflict

14.

Who wrote 'Remains'?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Carol Ann Duffy

c)

Robert Browning

d)

Simon Armitage

15.

Who wrote 'Ozymandias'?

a)

Ted Hughes

b)

Percy Shelley

c)

Robert Browning

d)

Beatrice Garland

16.

This poem talks about something that occurred in Japan during World War 2:

a)

Exposure

b)

Kamikaze

c)

War Photographer

17.

Which Poem was written by Seamus Heaney?

a)

Kamikaze

b)

My Last Dutchess

c)

Exposure

d)

Storm On The Island

18.

Complete the line: "the merciless iced east winds that (a)   us"

19.

What is the correct definition of enjambment?

a)

The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line.

b)

A thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else.

c)

A pause near the middle of a line.

d)

A group of lines forming the unit in a poem.

20.

Roughly how many cavalrymen formed the Light Brigade?

a)

300

b)

400

c)

500

d)

600

21.

Who wrote War Photographer?

a)

Wilfred Owen

b)

Carol Ann Duffy

c)

William Wordsworth

d)

Jane Weir

22.

How could you define the language technique in this quotation? ‘The grim shape towered up between me and the stars’

a)

Pathetic fallacy

b)

Antithesis

c)

Irony

d)

Personification

23.

“theirs not to make reply/ theirs not to reason why/ theirs but to do and die”

Which poem is this line from?

a)

London

b)

Poppies

c)

Exposure

d)

Charge of the Light Brigade

24.

Which poem?

“we turn back to our dying”

a)

Ozymandias

b)

Exposure

c)

Remains

d)

Poppies

25.

Which poem?

“bullets smacking the belly out of the air-“

a)

Exposure

b)

Poppies

c)

Bayonet Charge

d)

Charge of the Light Brigade

26.

Which poem?

“released a song bird from its cage”

a)

War Photographer

b)

Poppies

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Exposure

27.

Where was John Agard born?

a)

London

b)

Guyana

c)

Jamaica

d)

United States

28.

What dialect does Agard use in the poem?

a)

Pidgin English

b)

Standard English

c)

Estuary English

d)

Guyanese Creole

29.

Creole means a language or dialect derived from one or more other (especially European) languages. What other word can mean this?

a)

Pidgin

b)

Pigeon

c)

Patois

d)

Patwa

30.

Which poem?

'From Jamaica she travel far'

a)

Storm on the Island

b)

Ozymandias

c)

Checking Out Me History

d)

The Emigree

31.

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of a slave revolt...

a)

who fought against the British in Guyana

b)

who fought against the Russians in Crimea

c)

who fought against the French in Haiti

d)

who fought against Columbus and Spain

32.

Nanny de Maroon helped to free slaves and fight the British in

a)

Guyana

b)

Jamaica

c)

South Africa

d)

the USA

33.

Form: What is significant about Agard's use of stanzas?

a)

He uses a mixture of stanza forms to suggest he is not conforming to the language rules he has been taught.

b)

He uses the same style throughout to show how he wants to conform to the language rules he has been taught.

c)

It is uniformed to suggest language is universal.

d)

It looks neat to show how we should present ourselves at all times.

34.

Form: What is significant about the Caribbean history stanzas?

a)

They have longer lines and use Standard English. Agard done this to make them see more serious.

b)

They have shorter lines and broken syntax (grammar). Agard done this to make them seem more serious.

c)

They are irregular and don't make sense. Agard done this to ridicule his heritage.

d)

They are just normal and don't differ to show how his culture is more important than others.

35.

Which of the following are oral poetry features?

a)

Repetition

b)

Chanting

c)

Strong rhythm

d)

Standard English

e)

Phonetic spelling

36.

Which of these poems is NOT based on the poet's own experiences?

a)

Exposure

b)

Extract from the Prelude

c)

Remains

d)

Checking Out Me History

37.

Which one of these poems is a sonnet?

a)

London

b)

Exposure

c)

Charge of the Light Brigade

d)

Ozymandias

38.

Who wrote Kamikaze?

a)

William Blake

b)

Imtiaz Dharker

c)

Carol Rumens

d)

Beatrice Garland

39.

Why is Extract from the Prelude written in blank verse?

a)

Wordsworth used rhyme and rhythm - it is not blank verse

b)

It sounds grander than other forms of writing

c)

It makes the poem sound more like a story, as pentameter resembles natural speech

d)

Wordsworth wanted his poem to sound rhythmical, like a march or a nursery rhyme