Starter quiz
- Which of the following is an example of a metaphor?
- She was walking on sunshine. ✓
- He felt like he was on top of the world.
- They felt like they'd won the lottery.
- Her laugh sounded like it was jangling with joy.
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- Which of the following is an example of a simile?
- Anger took over him and he saw red.
- Shaking with fury, they slammed the door and stalked away.
- Her rage boiled over.
- He stomped upstairs, fury coursing through his veins like molten lava. ✓
- Her eyes narrowed as she glared angrily at him.
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- Which of the following is an example of personification?
- The haunted house loomed over the landscape like a ghostly sentinel.
- Creaking floorboards and rattling chains created a cacophony of chilling sounds.
- The haunted house exuded an unsettling atmosphere.
- The haunted house stood on the hill, a silent witness to the passage of time.
- The ancient staircase groaned under the weight of unseen footsteps. ✓
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- 'When quoting from a poem you do not need to use quotation marks.' Is this statement true or false?
- True
- False ✓
- Both - you use quotation marks for longer quotes but not for single words
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- Starting with the first, put these stages of analysing a poem in chronological order.
- 1⇔Read the poem and work out what it is about.
- 2⇔Identify the mood/emotive tone of the poem.
- 3⇔Re-read the poem and identify key words that stand out to you.
- 4⇔Annotate the poem, labelling the language techniques found in key words/phrases.
- If a poem has no regular rhyme scheme and no regular rhythmic pattern, we say it is written in ______.
- blank verse
- free verse ✓
- creative verse
- irregular verse
- independent verse
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Exit quiz
- Match up these words to the correct definitions.
- fragmented⇔Broken into pieces; lacking togetherness or unity ✓
- unified⇔Formed or integrated into a whole; cohesive or combined ✓
- hope⇔An optimistic expectation; a longing for a positive outcome ✓
- despair⇔Overwhelming sadness; a loss of hope ✓
- salvageable⇔Something that can be saved or repaired ✓
- As 'Winter Swans' progresses, the mood shifts from despair to ______.
- elation
- joy
- anger
- hope ✓
- forgiveness
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- 'Winter Swans' is from a collection called 'Skirrid Hill' which means ______.
- shattered mountain ✓
- demolished mountain
- enormous mountain
- rocky mountain
- lonely mountain
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- A tercet is ______.
- a stanza with three lines ✓
- a stanza with two lines
- a stanza with four lines
- a stanza with five lines
- a stanza with six lines
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- In line 14 of 'Winter Swans', Sheers uses a ______ to shift the mood of the poem and show a turning point for the couple.
- 'volta' ✓
- Starting with the first, put these quotations from 'Winter Swans' in the order they appear in the poem.
- 1⇔"two days of rain and then a break"
- 2⇔"silent and apart"
- 3⇔"the swans came and stopped us"
- 4⇔"porcelain over the stilling water"
- 5⇔"'They mate for life', you said"
- 6⇔"our hands, that had, somehow swum the distance between us"
- 7⇔"like a pair of wings settling after flight"
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Key learning points
- Sheers depicts a relationship which is initially fragmented as the couple are physically and emotionally separated.
- By the end of the poem the couple have salvaged their relationship and are reunified.
- The inconsistent form followed by a final couplet could mirror the changing status of the relationship.
- The setting at the start of the poem reflects the couples despairing and hopeless emotions.
- The poem is from a wider collection entitled 'Skirrid Hill' which means 'shattered mountain'.
Common misconception
Form and structure are the same thing.
Form deals with the 'poetic rules' that govern a poem and helps us to categorise it along with other similar poems whereas structure deals with how the ideas in the poem are ordered and organised.
Keywords
Fragmented - broken into pieces; lacking togetherness or unity
Unified - formed or integrated into a whole; cohesive or combined
Hope - an optimistic expectation; a longing for a positive outcome
Despair - overwhelming sadness; a loss of hope
Salvageable - something that can be saved or repaired
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