Language Techniques
What technique is used in the line, “Like a dull rumour of some other war”
Simile
Which theme is shown in “the mind-forged manacles”?
Oppression
Which poem contains the line “Half a league, half a league, half a league onward”?
The Charge of the Light Brigade
What do we call a fourteen-line poem, which usually follows a strict rhyming scheme.
A sonnet
Name one poem that you could compare with Ozymandias when exploring the theme of power?
London or My Last Duchess
What technique is used in the line “the merciless east winds that knive us” from Exposure
Personification
In Remains - which theme is highlighted through the casual tone and imagery in “I see every round as it rips through his life”?
Violence
Which poem begins “In his dark room he is finally alone”?
War Photographer
What is enjambment.
Enjambment is when a line runs on to the next without punctuation.
Which poem best compares to Storm on the Island when examining nature as both powerful and mysterious?
The Prelude
What do we call the language technique where two words not normally associated are brought together
Oxymoron
In Exposure - which theme is shown through line “the poignant misery of dawn”?
Nature as an enemy
Who wrote “Notice Neptune, though, / Taming a sea-horse,” and from which Poem?
Robert Browning - My Last Dutchess
How does War Photographer use structure to contrast past and present?
Juxtaposition
Which poem could you compare with The Émigrée when discussing identity and the impact of history or culture?
Checking Out Me History
Identify the two techniques in “Spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”
Sibilance and metaphor
What theme is explored in The Charge of the Light Brigade with “Theirs not to reason why”?
Obedience / duty
Name Three poets in the anthology, who could be considered romantic poets.
William Blake, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, or Alfred Lord Tennyson.
In Charge of the Light Brigade, how does the repetition of rhythm and sound it produces reflect the subject?
Horses Galloping / Battle Drums
Which poem could you compare with Poppies when discussing personal effects of war on families?
The Emigreé
What kind of language grouping do we see in Exposure with its repeated references to weather and pain?
Semantic field
What idea is being challenged in the repeated line “Dem tell me / Dem tell me / Wha dem want to tell me” from Checking Out Me History?
Historical Erasure / Colonial Education
In which poem do we find the line “We are prepared: we build our houses squat”, and who wrote it?
Seamus Heaney - Storm on the Island
What structure is repeated in London with its four equal stanzas.
Quatrains
Which other poem explores similar effects of psychological trauma and inner conflict as Remains?
Bayonet Charge