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'Power & Conflict' AQA Poetry Anthology
'Power & Conflict' AQA Poetry Anthology
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A quiz to test knowledge and quotations from the AQA 'Power and Conflict' poetry anthology,
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1
What elements of power and conflict are relevant to 'Checking Out Me History'?
Identity
War
Divisions in Society
Guilt
2
Which quotation contains an imperative verb?
"stamp'd on these lifeless things"
"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone / Stand in the desert"
"The lone and level sands stretch far away"
"Look on your works, ye Mighty, and despair"
3
Who wrote 'London'?
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Hogarth
William Blake
4
What imagery is repeated throughout 'Tissue'?
Books
Light
Paper
Death
5
Who wrote 'Poppies'?
Beatrice Garland
Carol Ann Duffy
Jane Weir
Carol Rumens
6
What has happened to the speaker's wife in 'My Last Duchess'?
It is implied she has been murdered by her husband
She dies in childbirth
She sells her husband's art collection
She commissions a portrait of the duke
7
What form is 'My Last Duchess'?
Limerick
Dramatic Monologue
Sonnet
Choral Poem
8
Which poem from the anthology is written by Seamus Heaney?
'Storm on the Island'
'Exposure'
'Remains'
'Kamikaze'
9
What poetic device does Wordsworth use to describe the mountain in 'Stealing the Boat'?
Metaphor
Pathetic Fallacy
Alliteration
Personification
10
"the gelled blackthorns of your hair" What does this image allude to?
the soldier's hair being spiked
the crucifixion of Christ
the barbed wire of the WW1 trenches
the spikes of bayonets
11
Who were the kamikaze?
RAF fighter pilots
Chinese foot soldiers
Japanese pilots sent on suicide missions
Allied submarines in the pacific ocean
12
Who is Duffy referring to in the quotation "they do not care"?
The wider world which is apathetic about suffering
The war photographer's friends and family
The newspaper editors
Readers of newspapers who don't care about victims of war
13
Complete the quotation: "Dawn massing in the east her........"
"melancholy army"
"merciless iced east winds"
"woeful soldiers"
"soldiers of death"
14
Complete the quotation: "the sun shines through...."
"their borderlines"
"the paper"
"the pages"
"the window"
15
Who wrote 'Bayonet Charge'?
Beatrice Garland
Ted Hughes
Wilfred Owen
Simon Armitage
16
Complete the quotation: "a hundred ................ in black and white"
"agonies"
"faces"
"memories"
"tears"
17
Complete the quotation: "he must have wondered..."
"why he must die"
"which had been the better way to die"
"why he was still alive"
"how he would survive"
18
What poetic device is used? "so all three of us open fire / three of a kind all letting fly"
Simile
Rhyme
Repetition
Metaphor
19
What happens to the pilot when he returns?
He takes his own life
He thinks about his childhood memories
He goes fishing on a little fishing boat
He is shunned by his friends and family
20
Who wrote 'My Last Duchess'?
William Blake
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Browning
21
What poetic device does Rumens use to describe the city as: "the bright, filled paperweight"?
Simile
Personification
Symbolism
Metaphor
22
Complete the quotation: "......................... etcetera / Dropped like luxuries"
"Love, peace, human kindness"
"King, honour, human dignity"
"Bayonet, rifle, knife"
"Patriotism, king, country"
23
What does Armitage use the metaphor "dug in behind enemy lines" to describe?
The speaker's memories
The soldier being in a trench
No man's land
The speaker's guilt
24
What imagery does Agard associate with Mary Seacole/Touissant/Nanny de Maroon?
Imagery of light
Imagery of death
Imagery of freedom
Imagery of darkness
25
What real life event does the quotation "running children in a nightmare heat" evoke?
The Gulf War
The American Civil War
The Vietnam War
The Second World War
26
What poetic device does Tennyson use in this quotation: "Storm'd at with shot and shell"?
Personification
Alliteration
Metaphor
Simile
27
What poetic device is demonstrated in the quotation "exploding comfortably down on the cliffs"?
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Symbolism
Oxymoron
28
What poetic device does this quotation demonstrate: "he lugged a rifle numb as a smashed arm"?
Metaphor
Simile
Juxtaposition
Alliteration
29
What elements of power and conflict are relevant to 'Storm on the Island'?
Power of nature
Guilt
Reality of conflict
Memory
30
Complete the quotation: "it may be at war....."
"it may be banned by the state"
"it may be sick with tyrants"
"it may by now be a lie"
"it may be only a memory"
31
Which poem is this following quotation from: "his bloody knife in my bloody hands"?
'Remains'
'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
'Exposure'
'Bayonet Charge'
32
What poetic device does Blake use in the image "marriage hearse"?
Simile
Alliteration
Pathetic fallacy
Contrast
33
Complete the quotation: "Into the jaws of Death..."
"Rode the six hundred"
"Into the jaws of Hell"
"The wild charge they made"
"Into the mouth of Hell"
34
How does Owen personify nature in 'Exposure'?
As a malicious force
As a threat
As weak and impotent
As a source of comfort to the soldiers
35
What is the message of the poem 'Ozymandias'?
The power of the passing of time
Human achievements are insignificant
The reality of conflict
Art cannot immortalise human power
36
Complete the quotation: "................. bandaged round my hand"
bandages
sellotape
thread
yellow bias binding
37
What does the phonetic spelling of "Dem tell me / Dem tell me" reflect?
Agard's Caribbean accent
Repetition
Agard's cockney accent
A spelling error
38
Who wrote 'Tissue'?
Seamus Heaney
Carol Ann Duffy
Imtiaz Dharker
Beatrice Garland
39
Which poem begins with this line: "Half a league, half a league."
'Kamikaze'
'The Charge of the Light Brigade'
'Exposure'
'Remains'
40
What's missing? "The ................ manacles I hear"
"mind-forg'd"
"woeful"
"marks of"
"mind made"
41
"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and......."
"despair"
"rejoice"
"weep"
"wonder"
42
Complete the quotation: "It was an act of stealth..."
"And troubled pleasure"
"And pleasure unknown"
"And guilty pleasure"
"And natural pleasures"
43
What elements of power and conflict are relevant to 'The Prelude: Stealing the Boat'?
Power of Nature
War
Guilt
Memory
44
Which quotation from 'The Emigree' demonstrates personification?
"My city comes to me in its own white plane"
"They accuse me of absence, they circle me"
"I can't get it off my tongue"
"banned by the state"
45
Which line is repeated in 'Exposure' by Wilfred Owen?
"But nothing happens"
"Rode the six hundred"
"Less deathly with the air that shudders black with snow"
"Our brains ache"
