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Duplicate of AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
Duplicate of AQA Power and Conflict Poetry
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#Exposure #BayonetCharge #CheckingOutMeHistory #Remains #Poppies #WarPhotographer
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1
The repetition of 'dem' ____ times in the poem sounds like a drum or hammer, expressing outrage
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14
12
2
What poems would be best to compare to explore ideas about the FUTILITY OF WAR?
Charge of the Light Brigade and Checking Out Me History
All of these would be good
Poppies and Remains
War Photographer and Exposure
3
Which verb isn't used to describe the hare's movements in Bayonet Charge'?
Screamed
Rolled
Crawled
Threw
4
In 'Poppies', the speaker is talking about her son who...
Is an Eskimo
Has died in war
Has been sent to war but is still alive
Could be alive or dead- it's ambiguous
5
What is unusual about the tense in the first stanza?
Both of these are true
All in present despite the fact he's recalling memories
Starts in past (got sent out) but turns to present (legs it)
6
Which of the following creatures and verb combinations ISN'T mentioned in 'Exposure'?
Blackbird fusses
Snakes slither
Mice rejoice
Crickets jingle
7
What simile is used to describe how the hare rolled?
Like a cheese roller
Like a ball
Like a flame
Like a wheel
8
What is the final line of 'Charge of the Light Brigade'?
Honour the charge they made!
Left of six hundred.
Honour the Light Brigade!
Noble six hundred!
9
What two poems would be good to explore the impact of PROPAGANDA?
TCOTLB and Bayonet Charge
War Photographer and Remains
All of these are good
Checking out me history and Poppies
10
Which of these similes ARE NOT from 'Poppies'?
'I leaned against it like a wishbone'
'skirted the graves like a ghost'
'The world overflowing like a treasure chest'
11
Which of the following examples of sibilance ISN'T from COTLB?
Saved of six hundred.
Stormed at with shot and shell
Shattered and sundered
Cossack and Russian
12
What semantic field do 'Poppies', 'dove', 'war memorial', and 'Armitice Sunday' belong to?
Colours
Rememberance and peace
Nature and animals
Death and War
13
Which religious imagery is not in 'War Photographer'?
The red light of the darkroom is likened to tabernacle light
A quotation from the old testemant, 'all flesh is grass',
The ordered rows of spools are compared to pew layouts
The photographer is likened to a priest intoning mass
14
What makes the narrative of this soldier universal (representative of all soldier's experiences)
It begins in media res
The semantic fields of war and nature are juxtaposed
It is written in third person with an unnamed narrator
It has common themes like patriotism and the reality of war
15
What birds are referenced in 'Poppies'?
'Song bird' and 'blackbird'
'Released bird' and 'dove'
'Dead bird' and 'crow'
'Song bird' and 'Single dove'
16
What two poems would be best to compare the presentation of the theme of NATURE?
War Photographer and Poppies
Exposure and Bayonet Charge
Checking out me history and TCOTLB
TCOTLB and Exposure
17
How many 'agonies in black and white' does the War Photographer have?
Hundreds
A hundred
Thousands
Five or six
18
Complete the quotation: 'Ranks on ______ ranks of grey'
Sagging
Shivering
Wandering
Shrivelling
19
Complete the blanks: '___ up me eye with me own history / __ me to me own identity'
Carving / Leading
Checking / Learning
Blind / bandage
Bandage / blind
20
What two poems would be best to choose to explore the PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF WAR?
War Photographer and Remains
Poppies and Exposure
All of these combinations are good
Bayonet Charge and Exposure
21
What battle and war is COTLB based on?
The battle of Balaclava, Crimean War.
It's not based on a real battle.
The charge of the cavalrymen, Crimean War.
The Crimean Battle, in the Balaclava War.
22
Which place of recent bloody conflict is not mentioned in 'War Photographer'?
Iraq
Belfast
Phnom Penh
Beirut
23
What adjective isn't used to describe the land in stanza 7?
Sun-stunned
Distant
Bloody
Sand-smothered
24
What is the final line of 'Bayonet Charge'?
To get out of that blue crackling air
His terror's touchy dynamite
Suddenly he awoke and was running
He plunged with his bayonet toward the green hedge
25
'Exposure' has a tone of nihilism. What does nihilism mean?
It is a synonym for futility, and the pointlessness of war.
A sense of anticipation and waiting for something
Extreme paronoia of danger being everywhere.
Extreme negativity- nothing in life has any value or meaning
26
Which of the following lines from 'Remains' is a metaphor?
On another occasion
Week after week
Blood-shadow
Probably armed, possibly not
27
What semantic fields are used in 'Checking Out Me History' to describe black historical figures
Religious and war
Physical strength and colour
Light and Power
Darkness and nature
28
Rhyme in the quatrains creates a mocking tone, whereas a more serious tone is created through..
Italics
Para-rhyme
Non-standard English
Free verse
29
What does Duffy seem to want to criticise in this poem?
The war zones and how they treat photographers
The war zones and how they treat their own civilians
Western attitudes to foreign Conflict
The impassivity of newspaper editors
30
'All in the valley of death' is an allusion to...
A Biblical psalm ('the valley of the shadow of death')
A mass grave in Fordon, Poland.
Coolio's critically acclaimed 'gansta's paradise'
