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English (Edexcel)
Poetry anthology: first study

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.  ✓
  • '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
  • Starting with the first, put these stages of analysing a poem in chronological order.
    • 1
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      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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