Power and Conflict Poetry Anthology - QUOTES

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Name the poet who wrote Poppies.

Jane Weir

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What oxymoron completes this line

'it was an act of stealth and _____ pleasure'?

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Name the simile in Storm on the Island.

spits like a tame cat'

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Name the last line in the extract from The Prelude.

were a trouble to my dreams'

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What is the English translation of the word kamikaze?

Divine wind

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Name the poet who wrote Bayonet Charge.

Ted Hughes

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In Remains

what adverbs show he is doubting his memory?

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in Storm on the Island

what is 'exploding comfortably down on the cliffs'?

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What is the form of the poem Kamikaze?

free verse

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In Charge of the Light Brigade

who was the original Lord who led the failed charge?

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In Remains

what does he imagine 'stays on the street'?

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What voice is the poem Checking Out written in?

creole

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Who cast the Neptune in My Last Duchess?

Claus of Innsbruck

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Bayonet Charge begins 'en media res'. What does this mean?

In the middle of the action.

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What line is repeated throughout Exposure?

but nothing happens

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Name the poet who wrote The Emigree.

Carol Rumens

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Finish the line

'every _____ church appalls'

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In Exposure

which other phrase best matches 'sun-dozed'?

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Finish the line

'the ____ tear that had brimmed in his eye'

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Which poem in the anthology is autobiographical?

The Prelude

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How many shoot at the looter in the poem Remains?

three

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What is the form of the poem Ozymandias?

A mixture of Petrachan and Elizabethan sonnet

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In the poem My Last Duchess

who was Neptune?

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Name the poet who wrote Ozymandias.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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In War Photgrapher

what does the blood stain into?

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What question does the soldier ask in B.Charge? Give the line.

In what cold clockwork of the stars was he the hand pointing that second?

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Name the last line in Ozymandias.

the lone and level sands stretch far away'

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In Charge of the Light Brigade

how many men lost their lives?

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What is the final line in the poem Tissue?

turned into your skin'

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In Bayonet Charge

what does 'bewilderment' mean?

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Name the artist mentioned in the poem My Last Duchess.

Fra Pandolf

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Name the device 'Dawn massing in the east her melancholy army'

Personfication

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In The Emigree

what lies down 'docile as paper'?

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Finish the line

'Three days before _____ ______'

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Name the poet who wrote My Last Duchess.

Robert Browning

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Name all the places mentioned in War Photographer.

Belfast

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In London

what metaphor best describes the control of people.

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Name a black historical figure mentioned in Checking Out Me History.

Toussaint L'Overture Nanny de Maroon

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The world overflowing like_________'. Complete this line.

like a treasure chest

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Name all the people mentioned in the poem London.

man

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What poem does Imitiaz Dharker write?

Tissue

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What poem does Simon Armitage write?

Remains

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What poem is written in equal quatrains?

Remains

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Write down the stucture of the Elizabethan sonnet.

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG

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Describe iambic pentameter.

x5 pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables.

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A poem that ends in a similar way to how it starts is known as..?

cyclical

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Which poem did William Wordsworth write?

The Prelude

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Which place in England is the inspriation for many of Wordsworth's poems?

The Lake District

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Which poem has a dactylic structure?

Charge of the Light Brigade.

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How many poems are in the anthology in total?

15

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Give three synonyms each for 'power' and 'confilict'.

control

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OZYMANDIAS - "Two _______ and _______________ legs of stone"

"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone"

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OZYMANDIAS - "a shattered _____________ lies"

"a shattered visage lies"

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OZYMANDIAS - "___________ of __________command"

"sneer of cold command"

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OZYMANDIAS - "My name is __________________

king of ________/Look on my works

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OZYMANDIAS - "__________________ and bare"

"boundless and bare"

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OZYMANDIAS - "the ________ and level sands stretch ______________"

"the lone and level sands stretch far away"

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LONDON - "each ________________ street

/Near where the ________________Thames does flow"

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LONDON - "Marks of _________________

marks of woe"

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LONDON - "In every __________'s cry of ________"

"In every infant's cry of fear"

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LONDON - "The _____________________ manacles I hear"

"The mind-forged manacles I hear"

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LONDON - "Runs in _____________ down ____________ walls"

"Runs in blood down palace walls"

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LONDON - "the youthful __________'s curse"

"the youthful harlot's curse"

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LONDON - "blights with plague the marriage _____________"

"blights with plague the marriage hearse"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "That's my last Duchess _______________ on the wall"

"That's my last Duchess painted on the wall"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "___________________ by design"

"Fra Pandolf by design"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "(since none puts by/the _____________ I have drawn for you

but __)"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "too soon made glad

/Too ____________ impressed"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "My gift of a _______________________________ name"

"My gift of a nine-hundred-years old name"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "I gave _______________/and all ____________ stopped together"

"I gave commands/and all smiles stopped together"

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MY LAST DUCHESS - "Notice _______________

though

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POPPIES - "_______________ war graves"

"individual war graves"

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POPPIES - "______________ the _________________/of my face"

"steeled the softening/of my face"

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POPPIES - "play at/being _____________ like we did when/you were younger"

"play at/being Eskimos like we did when/you were younger"

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POPPIES - "_______________

rolled

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POPPIES - "the world overflowing/like a _______________________"

"the world overflowing/like a treasure chest"

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POPPIES - "released a _______________ from its cage"

"released a songbird from its cage"

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POPPIES - "leaned against it like a ___________________"

"leaned against it like a wishbone"

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - "Dem ___________/Wha dem want to __________"

"Dem tell me/Wha dem want to tell me"

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - "________________ up me eye"

"Bandage up me eye"

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - "dem tell me bout ________________________ and he cat"

"dem tell me bout Dick Whittington and he cat"

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - "dem ___________ tell me bout Mary _______________"

"dem never tell me bout Mary Seacole"

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CHECKING OUT ME HISTORY - "But now I checking out _____________________/I carving out me _______________"

"But now I checking out me own history/I carving out me identity"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - "______________________

half a league/half a league onward"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - "Into the valley of __________/Rode the ________________________"

"Into the valley of death/Rode the six hundred"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - Some one had _________________"

Some one had blunder'd"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - "Theirs not to ____________ why

/Theirs but to do and _______"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - "Flash'd all their ____________ bare"

"Flash'd all their sabres bare"

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CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE - "_________________ the Light Brigade/Noble _____________________"

"Honour the Light Brigade/Noble six-hundred"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "In raw-seamed hot __________"

"In raw-seamed hot khaki"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "________________ with rifle fire"

"dazzled with rifle fire"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "The _________________ tear that had _________________ in his eye"

"The patriotic tear that had brimmed in his eye"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "|n what cold clockwork of the _________ and the _____________"

"|n what cold clockwork of the stars and the nations"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "Threw up a ____________________ that rolled like a flame"

"Threw up a yellow hare that rolled like a flame"

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BAYONET CHARGE - "________

honour. human dignity

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BAYONET CHARGE - "His terror's touchy _________________"

"His terror's touchy dynamite"

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EXPOSURE - "the __________________ iced east winds that knive/us"

"the merciless iced east winds that knive/us"

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EXPOSURE - "Like twitching agonies of men among its ___________________"

"Like twitching agonies of men among its brambles"

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EXPOSURE - "war lasts

______________ and clouds sag _____________"

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EXPOSURE - "__________________________ flights of _____________ streak the silence"

"Sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence"

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