Unseen Poetry

Question 1

Ambiguity is...

Accepted Answer

lack of clarity to encourage personal interpretation

Question 2

What is assonance?

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repetition of vowel sounds within words

Question 3

What does a simile do?

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

Question 4

Which is an example of assonance?

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Moving smoothly through ...

Question 5

How would you identify a simile?

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'Like' or 'as'

Question 6

What is an extended metaphor?

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A developed image, A metaphor that continues throughout the poem

Question 7

What does the couplet in a sonnet do?

Accepted Answer

sums up the message of the poem

Question 8

What is consonance?

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Repeated consonant sounds

Question 9

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

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

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

enjambment

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

caesura

Question 12

What does unseen mean?

Accepted Answer

The poem will not have been studied in class

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

The title

Question 14

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

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35 minutes

Question 15

What do you need to include in your analysis?

Accepted Answer

A personal response

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

form

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

...irregular or broken

Question 18

What is a group of themed words called?

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A semantic field, A lexical field

Question 19

What doers MITSL stand for ?

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Meaning, Imagery, Tone, Structure, Language

Question 20

What does the unseen poetry question ask you to do?

Accepted Answer

language structure and form analysis to interpret meaning

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