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Duplicate of AQA Power and Conflict Poetry 1
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#Exposure #BayonetCharge #CheckingOutMeHistory #Remains #Poppies #WarPhotographer
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1
How many 'agonies in black and white' does the War Photographer have?
Thousands
Five or six
Hundreds
A hundred
2
What birds are referenced in 'Poppies'?
'Song bird' and 'Single dove'
'Song bird' and 'blackbird'
'Dead bird' and 'crow'
'Released bird' and 'dove'
3
What semantic field do 'Poppies', 'dove', 'war memorial', and 'Armitice Sunday' belong to?
Death and War
Nature and animals
Colours
Rememberance and peace
4
'Exposure' has a tone of nihilism. What does nihilism mean?
Extreme negativity- nothing in life has any value or meaning
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.
5
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
6
The repetition of 'dem' ____ times in the poem sounds like a drum or hammer, expressing outrage
12
14
17
28
7
Which verb isn't used to describe the hare's movements in Bayonet Charge'?
Threw
Rolled
Crawled
Screamed
8
Which of the following examples of sibilance ISN'T from COTLB?
Shattered and sundered
Cossack and Russian
Stormed at with shot and shell
Saved of six hundred.
9
What battle and war is COTLB based on?
The Crimean Battle, in the Balaclava War.
It's not based on a real battle.
The battle of Balaclava, Crimean War.
The charge of the cavalrymen, Crimean War.
10
Complete the quotation: 'Ranks on ______ ranks of grey'
Wandering
Shivering
Sagging
Shrivelling
11
What devices does Armitage use to create the idea that 'Remains' is a real experience?
unadorned language ('bloody life in my bloody hands')
enjambment and half rhymes to create natural speech rhythm
Colloquialisms such as 'tosses his guts'
All of these
12
What is the final line of 'Charge of the Light Brigade'?
Honour the Light Brigade!
Honour the charge they made!
Left of six hundred.
Noble six hundred!
13
What is interesting about the structure of 'Exposure'?
Refrain of unanswered questions creates a sense of futility
Rhyme scheme of ABBAC makes the last lines seem awkward
All of these are true, adding to the tone of nihilism.
Use of para-rhyme is jarring, imitating the rough conditions
14
'All in the valley of death' is an allusion to...
A Biblical psalm ('the valley of the shadow of death')
Coolio's critically acclaimed 'gansta's paradise'
A mass grave in Fordon, Poland.
15
Which religious imagery is not in 'War Photographer'?
The red light of the darkroom is likened to tabernacle light
The ordered rows of spools are compared to pew layouts
A quotation from the old testemant, 'all flesh is grass',
The photographer is likened to a priest intoning mass
16
What is unusual about the tense in the first stanza?
All in present despite the fact he's recalling memories
Both of these are true
Starts in past (got sent out) but turns to present (legs it)
17
What poems would be best to compare to explore ideas about the FUTILITY OF WAR?
All of these would be good
Charge of the Light Brigade and Checking Out Me History
War Photographer and Exposure
Poppies and Remains
18
In 'Poppies', the speaker is talking about her son who...
Could be alive or dead- it's ambiguous
Has died in war
Has been sent to war but is still alive
Is an Eskimo
19
Which of the following lines from 'Remains' is a metaphor?
Week after week
Blood-shadow
On another occasion
Probably armed, possibly not
20
What does Duffy seem to want to criticise in this poem?
The war zones and how they treat photographers
Western attitudes to foreign Conflict
The impassivity of newspaper editors
The war zones and how they treat their own civilians
21
Which of the following creatures and verb combinations ISN'T mentioned in 'Exposure'?
Mice rejoice
Crickets jingle
Blackbird fusses
Snakes slither
22
What is the final line of 'Bayonet Charge'?
He plunged with his bayonet toward the green hedge
His terror's touchy dynamite
To get out of that blue crackling air
Suddenly he awoke and was running
23
Which place of recent bloody conflict is not mentioned in 'War Photographer'?
Beirut
Phnom Penh
Belfast
Iraq
24
What two poems would be best to compare the presentation of the theme of NATURE?
Exposure and Bayonet Charge
TCOTLB and Exposure
War Photographer and Poppies
Checking out me history and TCOTLB
25
Rhyme in the quatrains creates a mocking tone, whereas a more serious tone is created through..
Non-standard English
Free verse
Para-rhyme
Italics
26
What adjective isn't used to describe the land in stanza 7?
Sand-smothered
Distant
Sun-stunned
Bloody
27
Which of these similes ARE NOT from 'Poppies'?
'I leaned against it like a wishbone'
'The world overflowing like a treasure chest'
'skirted the graves like a ghost'
28
What simile is used to describe how the hare rolled?
Like a flame
Like a cheese roller
Like a wheel
Like a ball
29
What makes the narrative of this soldier universal (representative of all soldier's experiences
It begins in media res
It has common themes like patriotism and the reality of war
It is written in third person with an unnamed narrator
The semantic fields of war and nature are juxtaposed
30
What two poems would be best to choose to explore the PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF WAR?
Bayonet Charge and Exposure
War Photographer and Remains
All of these combinations are good
Poppies and Exposure
31
Complete the blanks: '___ up me eye with me own history / __ me to me own identity'
Checking / Learning
Carving / Leading
Bandage / blind
Blind / bandage
32
What two poems would be good to explore the impact of PROPAGANDA?
All of these are good
War Photographer and Remains
Checking out me history and Poppies
TCOTLB and Bayonet Charge
