Poetry

Question 1

Cyclical

Answer 1

A loop, starting and ending with one idea or image

Question 2

Linear

Answer 2

A beginning, middle and end

Question 3

Non- linear

Answer 3

A jump through time with flashbacks/ forward time skips or starting part way through or at the end

Question 4

Semantic field

Answer 4

A collection of words relating to a topic or theme

Question 5

Lament poem

Answer 5

Any poem expressing deep grief, usually at the death of a loved one or some other loss

Question 6

Half rhyme

Answer 6

Last consonant phonetic is the same

Question 7

Romantic poet

Answer 7

A poet who writes mainly about the beauty of the world- romanticism was a movement which focused on nature, history and tradition in a changing world of industry

Question 8

Volta

Answer 8

A turn/shift

Question 9

Enjambment

Answer 9

Continuation of a sentence through multiple lines of poetry

Question 10

Caezura

Answer 10

Punctuation in the middle of a line

Question 11

Sonnet (Petrarchan)

Answer 11

14 lines of iambic pentameter, begins with 8 lines (an octave) with an ABBA rhyme scheme, ends with 6 lines (a sestet) with alternating rhyme scheme

Question 12

Sonnet

Answer 12

14 lines, 1 stanza

Question 13

When we two parted- Lord Byron context

Answer 13

Bryon was known publicly for scandalous relationships, he had several affairs with married women and was rejected a burial at Westminster Abbey due to his questionable morality

Question 14

Semantic fields/ word themes in WWTP

Answer 14

Sadness and solitude (longing)= parted, silence, tears, broken hearted, sever, sorrow

Time (distance between them)= years, hour, long years, (long, long)

Facial features= cheek, brow, ear

Deception (secret relationship)= secret, decieve, shame

Question 15

Quote for enjambment in WWTP (split of feelings)

Answer 15

It felt like the warning/ Of what I feel now.

Question 16

Quote for caezura in WWTP (emphasizes length of time)

Answer 16

Long, long shall I rue (regret) thee

Question 17

What type of poem is WWTP, what does the structure reveal

Answer 17

A lament poem, Byron wrote it in 4 octaves so he takes time and care with the poem revealing his care for this partner

Question 18

Last line of WWTP

Answer 18

With silence and tears- repetition, arguably cyclical as second line is in silence and tears- silence due to secret relationship so people cannot know he is grieving

Question 19

Context of Loves Philosophy by Percy B Shelly

Answer 19

Shelly was a Romantic poet and and atheist, he was expelled from Oxford due to this, he had many scandalous relationships but eventually married Mary Shelly

Question 20

Use of religious imagery in LP

Answer 20

Persuades his reader (probably religious) that to desire to kiss is law divine- he tries to explain that physical desire is natural as well as a religious experience by connecting natural and religious imagery

Question 21

Use of natural imagery in LP

Answer 21

Uses natural imagery as persuasion as nature is tangible, intends to show how natural it is to have sex with him

Question 22

Personification in LP

Answer 22

Used as a direct parallel to the love he wants with her through ‘mountains kiss, waves clasp, moonbeams kiss, sunlight clasps’

Question 23

Religious imagery quote in LP

Answer 23

‘By a law divine, in one another’s beings mingle’

Question 24

Extended metaphor in LP

Answer 24

Euphemism of nature as ‘fountains mingle’ and ‘winds of heaven mix’

Question 25

'What are all these kissings worth if thou not kiss me'

Answer 25

Rhetorical question as persuasion- readers would agree that the nature of beauty is priceless especially contemporary- therefore saying that the beauty of nature is not worth anything if she doesn't kiss him- rhetorical.

Question 26

Porphyria's Lover- Robert Browning

Answer 26

One of the earliest and most shocking of Browning's dramatic monologues. It allows the readers into the mind of a killer while also presenting a sexually provocative illicit affair- racy in Victorian era

Question 27

Religious Imagery in Neutral Tones

Answer 27

'Chidden of God' and 'God-cursed sun'

Question 28

Colour imagery in Neutral Tones

Answer 28

'Sun was white' 'ash and were grey' 'greyish leaves'

Question 29

Juxtaposition of Life and Death

Answer 29

'Alive enough to have the strength to die'

Question 30

Neutral tones as a lament poem

Answer 30

'keen lessons that love deceives'

Question 31

Animalistic Imagery in The Farmer's Bride

Answer 31

'Wide brown eyes'

Question 32

Sibilance in TFB

Answer 32

'Shiver and a scare'- creates an ominous tone surrounding the Bride's return

Question 32

Connotations of 'maid' in TFB

Answer 32

Innocence, purity, virginity

Question 32

Farmer is not thinking straight in TFB

Answer 32

'Sweet as the first wild violets' presents the love he has from his wife as 'wild'