Edexcel Conflict Poetry Form Structure Language - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
___ rhyme scheme \| ____ rhyme scheme	AABB	100%
Regular metre and ___ rhyme scheme	ABAB	100%
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT	BRIGADE	100%
HALF	CASTE	100%
BELFAST	CONFETTI	100%
War imagery and mentions of the war memorial convey violence, and perhaps the son's ___	death	100%
___ person narrative	First	100%
___ person makes it personal	first	100%
THE CLASS	GAME	100%
A significant number of lines in the poem start with ___ to present the lord as the most important figure in the narrative. Also shows Kate's passiveness in 3rd stanza	he	100%
COUSIN	KATE	100%
THE MAN HE	KILLED	100%
WHAT WERE THEY	LIKE?	100%
WAR	PHOTOGRAPHER	100%
POP	PIES	100%
EXTRACT FROM THE	PRELUDE	100%
NO	PROBLEM	100%
___ usually shows structure. By scattering it throughout poem, loss of control is conveyed	punctuation	100%
CAT	RIN	100%
EXPO	SURE	100%
A POISON	TREE	100%
First stanza describes glory of army. ___ on line 7 begins to describe defeat \| ___ when mountain appears. Tone becomes darker and more fearful	Volta	100%
Has ___ stanzas but no real progression	8	50%
Regular ___ rhyme scheme to reflect monotony	ABBAC	50%
___ rhyme scheme \| ___ rhyme scheme looks at new part of problem every 4 lines	ABCB	50%
Uses ___ verse	blank	50%
Last stanza ends with same words as first one: "___ ___ ___"	But nothing happens	50%
2nd looks to the future and hopes for ___	change/progress	50%
Memories of the son's ___ are mingled with those of him leaving home	childhood	50%
In ___ order \| Poem is ___ but the time frame is ambiguous \| Told in ___ order	chronological	50%
"I" vs "you" emphasises ___ division	class	50%
___ language: informal language and slang suggest that the speaker is an ordinary, working-class man	Colloquial	50%
___ language/working class slang make the poem conversational. Reinforces speaker's pride in their class	Colloquial/informal	50%
Reflects pride and authenticity in ___	culture/heritage/identity/ethnicity	50%
Has a ___ structure which reflects speaker's though process as he replays memories of the war \| ___ structure: begins and ends by exploring flexibility of frames and boundaries	cyclical	50%
Guyanese ___ is used to show how mixing things creates powerful poetry	dialect	50%
___ gives the speaker authenticity and makes the poem personal	Dialect	50%
Provides strong impression of the mother's ___	emotions/feelings	50%
Long sentences and ___ also provide this impression \| Use of ___ and lack of standard punctuation provide a sense of urgency	enjambment	50%
Makes emotion feel authentic. ___ also helps imitate flowing thoughts and reflects the 'rope of love' - persisting link between the pair	Enjambment	50%
___ ___ perspective. Sounds personal and describes turning point in Wordsworths's life	First person	50%
Not immediately recognisable as ___ ___ \| ___ ___ reveals thoughts and events in natural style	free verse	50%
Regular rhythm might remind reader of ___ horses	galloping	50%
Each stanza ends with a ___ line, leaving gap that mirrors lack of activity/hope for men	half	50%
Second half exaggerates the idea that the speaker is half a person, to expose the ridiculousness of the term ___-___. Final lines invite reader to reconsider using the term	half caste	50%
Reflects speaker's belief that formal langage/conventions are unnecessary and that they're proud of their ___	heritage/culture/identity/class	50%
Fearful: far less confident at end of extract. Troubled by what he's witnessed. Experience has a ___ effect on him	lasting/haunting/lingering	50%
Dramatic language: initial glimpse of threatening language becomes more intense after the ___ appears	mountain	50%
Sounds serious and important, but also like ___ speech	natural	50%
___ language - speaker's anger is described using metaphor of a tree, which grew naturally with sun and water	natural/nature	50%
Beautiful language: begins with pretty, pastoral images of ___ \| Poet compares things to ___	nature	50%
___ is personified as the real enemy in the war	Nature/weather	50%
Violence: powerful verbs & adjectives give sense of violence in the battle. Sounds are often ___	plosive	50%
No ___ rhyme/rhythm - sounds like thoughts/memories	regular	50%
___ rhythm creates fast pace and imitates the cavalry's advance and energy of the battle	Regular/relentless	50%
___ creates sense of impending doom and inevitability	Repetition	50%
Mirrors interest in truth because words are not dressed up in ___	rhyme	50%
No regular ___ ___	rhyme scheme	50%
THE DESTRUCTION OF	SENNACHERIB	50%
Repetition of "___ ___" reinforces the mass destruction of the war	six hundred	50%
Narrated in ___ ___ making it seem like a story	third person	50%
Free ___, with no regular rhythm or rhyme	verse	50%
Sexual language: could relate to Wordsworth losing his ___	virginity	50%
Shows monotony of life in trenches and ___ of change. Even death alters nothing	absence/lack	0%
Respectful language shows that the speaker feels the soldiers should be ___	admired/honoured/remembered	0%
How to read it is ___, mirroring the poem's unease	ambiguous	0%
In the second stanza, ___ is used to describe how the lord seduced and abandoned the speaker \| Repetition - ___ of 'and' creates momentum and inevitability \| Repetition - ___ of 'and' is used at the start of many lines	anaphora	0%
___ imagery reminds the reader of the men's pain, bad weather, lack of hope	Bleak	0%
Punctuation and ___ show cracks in relationship \| Repetition and ___ create hesitance. Speaker is questioning his actions (and, by extension, the war) \| ___ and questions create ponderous pauses	caesurae	0%
Language is often beautiful and creates a sense of ___ which gives the poem an eerie tone	calm	0%
Pleasant descriptions of the girl and her baby in the ___ of the photo contrast reality	caption	0%
Final section: speaker reflects on how experience ___ him	changed/altered/affected	0%
Lack of regular rhyme scheme resembles ___ of war \| Punctuation also adds to the sense of ___. Poem has noisy atmosphere	chaos	0%
The story is told ___	chronologically	0%
The final stanza provides the poem's ___. Implied that the poet's building anger has led to the foe's death	climax	0%
___ voice shows shared experience of the soldiers	Collective/shared	0%
Contrasts the final paragraph where the exclamation "Yes" suggest's he's come to a ___	conclusion	0%
The final change to "I'm proud of the class that I come from" provides a clear ___	conclusion/ending	0%
Two ___ - the daughter's birth and a later argument - are compared	confrontations/arguments/conflicts	0%
Uses ___ to emphasise moral message. Compares time where anger was spoken about to time where it was repressed to show consequences of repressing emotions	contrasts	0%
___ such as 'patio' and 'yard' emphasise the triviality of the divide	Contrasts	0%
Make the poem ___, contrasting with the dark subject matter	conversational/casual/informal	0%
Rhyming ___ and ___ drive poem forward, but momentum is broken by unrhymed lines. Mirrors stumbling horses/falling soldiers	couplets triplets	0%
Speaker repeatedly demonstrates that they're more complex than stereotypes expected of them - language of ___	defiance	0%
Does not compare the rider to anything nature-related, ___ individual soldiers	dehumanising	0%
Assonance, onomatopoeia and carefully chosen verbs add to bleak mood and make descriptions vivid and ___	depressing/sad/miserable/melancholic	0%
This offers no comfort or satisfaction: rhymes are ___ and convey the men's confusion and fading energy	dissonant/incomplete/unsatisfying	0%
Mother's ___ from her son shown in the ways she can't touch or hear him	distance/separation	0%
Images of war are juxtaposed with ___ images of family life	domestic	0%
It's a ___ ___ addressed to the speaker's cousin \| Speech from a single character: ___ ___	dramatic monologue	0%
Shows how the working class were ___ and contrasts with the harrowing themes of war and death	exploited	0%
Following stanzas introduce develop the ___ ___ of the tree as it grows	extended metaphor	0%
Relationship presented as challenging. Birth described as "___ ___" and mother still fighting daughter off later in life	fierce confrontation	0%
Varying stanza/line lengths reflect ___ of frames	flexibility	0%
The speaker is ___ and respectful	formal	0%
Imagery of ___, and frequent use of violent vocabulary reinforces impression of devastation	fragmentation	0%
Emphasises how ___'s power is effortless compared to big displays of power by Assyrians	God	0%
Creates urgency and reflects constant ___ of speaker's anger	growth/development/escalation	0%
Rope binds pair together. "___ ___" suggests plentiful supply of maternal love, but also suggests that daughter's love is buried	heart's pool	0%
Adverbs and verbs like "boldly" and "charging" seem ___	heroic	0%
After each repetition of "___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___" the speaker asks about different elements of their identity	How can you tell what class I'm from?	0%
Last line is ___ to create more authenticity and encourage the reader to reflect on using that argument as an excuse \| Poem is ___ to highlight the absurdity of the term	humorous	0%
Peaceful, ___ imagery contrasts with war	idyllic	0%
1st stanza is past tense, second is present. Shift creates sense of ___	immediacy	0%
Matter-of-fact, unemotional language describes killing the man. Highlights the ___ nature of war	impersonal	0%
Metaphor: Being mixed race is compared to art. Suggests combinations make things beautiful rather than ___	incomplete	0%
Starts ___ ___ ___ and has no real conclusion	in media res	0%
Speaker has an almost childlike ___	innocence	0%
Poem contrasts ___ with ___	innocence corruption	0%
However, they have an ___/sarcastic undertone. They are repressing the true extent of their feelings about the war	insincere	0%
Second stanza uses the same format in the first two lines and second two, but ___ the seasons	juxtaposes/contrasts	0%
First half of poem compares being ___ ___ to great art and natural weather	mixed race	0%
First stanza introduces the ___ message of the poem.	moral	0%
(Also why no ___ are given in the poem)	names	0%
Adjectives with ___ prefixes like "unsmote" show the passivity of the soldiers	negative	0%
Creates a regular beat, makes it sound childlike like a ___ ___. Emphasises the moral message	nursery rhyme	0%
Shows their relative passivity. Rossetti reinforces this by likening women to ___ - which, to the lord, they are	objects	0%
Also shows how trauma is ___. Speaker can't come to terms with what they saw	ongoing	0%
She touches other things and listens for his voice "___ ___ ___" but can't replace the person	on the wind	0%
Weapon. It brings terror instead of ___	order	0%
Often rhymes are ___ like "snow" and "renew" \| Some rhymes and ___ are used to create a sense of rhythm	pararhymes	0%
___ ___ ___ dialect - words are spelt as they're spoken	Phonetic Caribbean English	0%
Written in present tense using first person ___	plural	0%
More conventional to use ___ but 2 stanzas of different lengths reflects speaker's message that they're more than what's expected of them	quatrains	0%
One sided ___ and ___ structure. Speaker asks questions, responds with even more questions \| Unusual ___ and ___ form	question answer	0%
No ___ to the conflict	resolution/conclusion/end	0%
___ ___ ask why the men are exposed to such conditions	Rhetorical questions	0%
Mostly in ___ ___ but some are pararhymes \| Very simple rhyme scheme made up of ___ ___ \| Written in ___ ___ which drive the poem forward and reflect quick defeat of Assyrians	rhyming couplets	0%
Compares defeat of Assyrians to changing ___ to make it seem natural and inevitable	seasons	0%
Consequences of war are described vividly to ___ to reader	shock	0%
The longer third line of each stanza is a feature of ___ ___ (often used in hymns)	short meter	0%
Contrasts highlight ___ and ___, eg. Ascot girls vs small girl. Connects the girls, while emphasising a huge difference in their experiences.	similarities differences	0%
1st stanza is how speaker's been affected by racial ___	stereotypes	0%
The lord is the ___ of many sentences and is doing things to the women	subject	0%
This is initially reassuring, but becomes menacing (how easy it is to ignore ___)	suffering	0%
___ main sections in the extract. In the first, the tone is light and carefree	Three	0%
The bar in the final stanza links to the ancient inn in the first, suggesting that the speaker's ___ is ongoing	trauma	0%
1st, 2nd and 4th lines: iambic ___. 3rd line: iambic ___.	trimeter tetrameter	0%
Powerful descriptions of warzones force reader to confront the ___	truth	0%
The speaker is ___ as her opinions of Kate are coloured by resentment	unreliable	0%
This is ___ verse in iambic pentameter	unrhymed	0%
___ line lengths, incomplete sentences and enjambment reflect a lack of clarity in the speaker's thoughts	Varying/differing	0%
Language of ___ creates sympathetic response	victimisation	0%
May reflect how ___ is also not recognisable	Vietnam	0%
Shows Sennacherib's violence by comparing him to a ___	wolf	0%

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