AQA English Literature 'Power and Conflict' Poetry!

Question 1

"Home again/to ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

War Photographer

Question 2

Whose poem in the 'power and conflict' anthology is from their poetry collection 'The Terrorist at my Table'?

Accepted Answer

Imtiaz Dharker

Question 3

The real-life, historical figures of Duke Alfonso 11 and Lucrezia D'Medici are explored in which poem?

Accepted Answer

My Last Duchess

Question 4

"Our brains ache, in the merciless iced east winds" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Exposure

Question 5

What poem presents a soldier as a weapon of war?

Accepted Answer

Bayonet Charge

Question 6

"With trembling oars I turned" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Extract from The Prelude

Question 7

In which poem does a grieving mother discuss her final moments with her son before he left to fight in a war?

Accepted Answer

Poppies

Question 8

Which of these is a triplet?

Accepted Answer

"Poetry is amazing, fantastic and wonderful"

Question 9

"I gave commands/Then all smiles stopped together" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

My Last Duchess

Question 10

Which poet was inspired to write a poem due to their friendship with a war photographer?

Accepted Answer

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 11

What type of question will you be asked for your poetry exam?

Accepted Answer

Comparative

Question 12

What poem talks about the profound effect that the power of nature had on an individual?

Accepted Answer

Extract from The Prelude

Question 13

Which poem presents the guilt and trauma that a soldier deals with when returning home from war?

Accepted Answer

Remains

Question 14

What does 'Kamikaze' translate to?

Accepted Answer

Divine Wind

Question 15

"The world overflowing like a treasure chest" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Poppies

Question 16

Who asked Jane Weir to write 'Poppies' as part of a collection of war poems to be published in The Guardian?

Accepted Answer

Carol Ann Duffy

Question 17

"Suddenly he awoke and was running" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Bayonet Charge

Question 18

Who was a key Romantic poet who rejected established religion despite exploring it in poetry?

Accepted Answer

William Blake

Question 19

"Paper that that lets the light/shine through" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Tissue

Question 20

Which of these is a metaphor?

Accepted Answer

"His blood shadow stays on the street"

Question 21

Which poem is about the passage of time and how it decays power and status?

Accepted Answer

Ozymandias

Question 22

"and enough fuel for a one-way/journey into history" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze

Question 23

What poem paints a miserable, decaying and depressed image of life in a city?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 24

What poem suggests that a wife was murdered out of jealousy and a lack of control?

Accepted Answer

My Last Duchess

Question 25

Which of these is alliteration?

Accepted Answer

"His terror's touchy dynamite"

Question 26

Which of these is an example of caesura?

Accepted Answer

"Probably armed, possibly not"

Question 27

The poet of 'Exposure', Wilfred Owen, returned to war after suffering from PTSD, but what happened?

Accepted Answer

He was tragically killed just days before the war ended at 26.

Question 28

Which poet explores a 'fascination with elsewhere' in their poetry?

Accepted Answer

Carol Rumens

Question 29

"His blood-shadow stays on the street" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Remains

Question 30

"Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Storm on the Island

Question 31

What poem shows how a father is shunned after deciding to turn away from his "duty" in war?

Accepted Answer

Kamikaze

Question 32

Which poem shows both the speaker's sadness but also pride in her home country?

Accepted Answer

The Emigree

Question 33

In which poem does the speaker try to open people's eyes to the truth of war, but is not listened to?

Accepted Answer

War Photographer

Question 34

Which poem metaphorically explores the conflict between the Protestants and Catholics in late 20th century Ireland?

Accepted Answer

Storm on the Island

Question 35

Which poet made a film for Channel 4 in 2007 called 'The Not Dead' where they interviewed soldiers of different wars?

Accepted Answer

Simon Armitage

Question 36

"But most through midnight streets I hear/How the youthful harlot's curse" is quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

London

Question 37

Which of these is personification?

Accepted Answer

"In the merciless iced east winds that knive us"

Question 38

"Bandage up me eye with me own history" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Checkin Out Me History

Question 39

"But I am branded by an impression of sunlight" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

The Emigree

Question 40

Which poem personifies nature as attacking soldiers in war just as much as the battle itself?

Accepted Answer

Exposure

Question 41

Which of these is a simile?

Accepted Answer

"And measured motion like a living thing"

Question 42

What poem uses an extended metaphor to discuss the fragility of humanity and life?

Accepted Answer

Tissue

Question 43

Which poem is about frustration about having your true identity denied to you and hidden?

Accepted Answer

Checkin Out Me History

Question 44

"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" is a quote from which poem?

Accepted Answer

Ozymandias

Question 45

Which of these is sibillance?

Accepted Answer

"Solutions slop in trays"

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