Starter quiz
- The attribution of human characteristics to non-human things is called...
- pathetic fallacy
- personification ✓
- onomatopoeia
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- In Brontë's 'Shall earth no more inspire thee', the speaker is trying to...
- encourage the listener to return to nature ✓
- encourage the listener to forget about nature
- consider how they might use nature in their writing
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- What might regularity in a rhyme scheme suggest?
- chaos
- calm ✓
- heightened emotion
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- Match the word with its rhyming pair.
- now⇔bow ✓
- breezes⇔pleases ✓
- blending⇔bending ✓
- A literary argument in a piece of writing consists of...
- you proving your ideas to the reader through evidence ✓
- giving opposing ideas throughout your piece of writing
- proving that everyone else's ideas are wrong
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- In the word "inspire", the "in" is the unstressed syllable. What sort of sound is it in comparison to the stressed syllable "spire"?
- louder
- softer ✓
- the same
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Exit quiz
- The final stanza of 'Shall earth no more inspire thee' is written in which rhyming pattern?
- AAAA ✓
- ABAB
- ABBB
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- In 'Shall earth no more inspire thee', by implying that the speaker is nature, Brontë is ______ nature.
- 'personifying' ✓
- A pattern in poetry where each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable is called...
- iambic ✓
- trochaic
- dactylic
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- What reaction does the speaker receive from the listener in Brontë's 'Shall earth no more inspire thee'?
- acceptance and agreement
- anger and rejection
- no response ✓
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- The part of the word that you don't emphasise or accent is called the...
- syllable
- unstressed syllable ✓
- stressed syllable
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- Brontë's decision to add an extra unstressed syllable to some of the lines in 'Shall earth no more inspire thee' most likely indicates...
- the feminine energy of nature
- the soothing voice of nature ✓
- the playfulness of nature
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Key learning points
- Arguably, Brontë personifies nature in order to encourage the reader to form a connection with nature.
- Brontë largely uses a regular rhyme of ABAB which may reflect the calm voice of the speaker.
- The deviation to AAAA in the final stanza could signify that the speaker and listener are connecting.
- The extra unstressed syllable on the first and third lines could add to the soothing nature of the speaker.
Common misconception
A change in the rhyming pattern is unimportant to the meaning of the poem.
A change in the rhyme could signify a change in emotion or a conflict/resolution has occurred.
Keywords
Personification - attribution of human characteristics to non-human things
Unstressed syllable - the part of the word that you don't emphasise or accent
Iambic - a pattern in poetry where each unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
Feminine ending - a line that ends in an unstressed syllable
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