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
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- 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. ✓
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- 'Sonnet 29' focuses on which types of desire?
- emotional ✓
- physical/sexual ✓
- materialistic
- spiritual
- philosophical
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- In 'Letters from Yorkshire', we could argue that the speaker's relationship with the man is...
- ending
- toxic
- platonic ✓
- ambiguous ✓
- unrequited ✓
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- 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.
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- 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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