Starter quiz

  • What is a topic sentence?
    • a sentence at the beginning of an analysis paragraph, introducing your argument  ✓
    • a sentence in the middle of an analysis paragraph, justifying your argument
    • a sentence at the end of an analysis paragraph, summarising your argument
    • a sentence use to embed a quotation
    • a sentence used to explore the wider context of a poem
  • Which of these sentences contains tentative language?
    • The boy fell over.
    • Unfortunately, the boy fell over.
    • Falling over, the boy scraped his knee.
    • From the cuts on his knee, we can infer that the boy may have fallen over.  ✓
    • The boy may have fallen over.  ✓
  • 'Sonnet 29' focuses on which types of desire?
    • emotional  ✓
    • physical/sexual  ✓
    • materialistic
    • spiritual
    • philosophical
  • In 'Letters from Yorkshire', we could argue that the speaker's relationship with the man is...
    • ending
    • toxic
    • platonic  ✓
    • ambiguous  ✓
    • unrequited  ✓
  • By the end of 'Sonnet 29', the speaker's desire is fulfilled because her lover returns to her whereas in 'Letters from Yorkshire' the speaker's desire is left unfulfilled because...
    • Dooley ends with a rhetorical question to show the speaker's confusion.
    • Dooley ends on a bleak final image, emphasising the distance between them.  ✓
    • Dooley's use of rhyme scheme leaves the last stanza unfinished.
    • Dooley's use of verbs implies the speaker's desires haven't been satisfied.
    • Dooley emphasises the spiritual connection she has with the man.
  • Which of these quotations from 'Sonnet 29' best implies that the speaker's desire is intense and corruptive?
    • "O my palm tree"
    • "I do not think of thee - I am too near thee."
    • "my thoughts do twine and bud [...] and soon there's nought to see"  ✓
    • "Drop heavily down, - burst, shattered, everywhere!"
    • "Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare"
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