Unseen Poetry Quiz

Question 1

What does a simile do?

Accepted Answer

Uses something familiar to help create a clear image, Creates a comparison to associate characteristics

Question 2

What do you need to include in your analysis?

Accepted Answer

A personal response

Question 3

How would you identify a simile?

Accepted Answer

'Like' or 'as'

Question 4

What is an extended metaphor?

Accepted Answer

A metaphor that continues throughout the poem, A developed image

Question 5

What does unseen mean?

Accepted Answer

The poem will not have been studied in class

Question 6

On a scale of 1-8 (low to high), how confident are you on tackling Unseen Poetry?

Accepted Answer

5-6, 7-8, 3-4, 1-2

Question 7

When a rhyme schem doesn't seem to follow a strict pattern it is...

Accepted Answer

...irregular or broken

Question 8

How long will you have to complete section B, Unseen Poetry

Accepted Answer

35 minutes

Question 9

Which is an example of assonance?

Accepted Answer

Moving smoothly through ...

Question 10

What is a group of themed words called?

Accepted Answer

A semantic field, A lexical field

Question 11

What does the unseen poetry question ask you to do?

Accepted Answer

language structure and form analysis to interpret meaning

Question 12

Ambiguity is...

Accepted Answer

lack of clarity to encourage personal interpretation

Question 13

How long will you have to complete section B, Unseen Poetry

Accepted Answer

35 minutes

Question 14

Sonnet, Ballad, Dramatic monologue, Narrative voice, can all be analysed under which criterion?

Accepted Answer

form

Question 15

When a line of poetry is broken with punctuation, this is called...

Accepted Answer

caesura

Question 16

What doers MITSL stand for ?

Accepted Answer

Meaning, Imagery, Tone, Structure, Language

Question 17

What is a phrase or sentence that runs into the next line called?

Accepted Answer

enjambment

Question 18

How long will you have to complete section B, Unseen Poetry

Accepted Answer

35 minutes

Question 19

What is assonance?

Accepted Answer

repetition of vowel sounds within words

Question 20

What is consonance?

Accepted Answer

Repeated consonant sounds

Question 21

What does the couplet in a sonnet do?

Accepted Answer

sums up the message of the poem

Question 22

What's the first thing you should consider when presented with an unseen poem?

Accepted Answer

The title

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