Reading Poetry for O-Level Literature in English (SEAB 2065) quiz quiz

Explaining how the poet makes meaning through specific choices and their effect

A neat summary of what the poem is about

Naming as many poetic devices as possible

Reciting facts about the poet's life

The poet uses a metaphor in the first line.

The metaphor of the single eye isolates the lighthouse and makes its vigilance feel intensely lonely.

There is alliteration in the second stanza.

The poem has four stanzas.

Count how many devices you have named

Make sure every quotation is at least two lines long

Delete the name of the device and check the sentence still explains how the words shape meaning

Mention the poet's nationality

Because forms are never relevant to meaning

Because you should never mention form at all

Because only free verse is examined

Because the marks come from explaining how the shape, line breaks and pattern guide the reader and reinforce meaning

Read it twice for sense and work out the situation, speaker and feeling

Start writing your answer immediately to save time

Count the syllables in every line

Guess the poet and write what you know about them

A list of every device in the poem

A clear statement of what the poem explores and how, which every paragraph supports

The first quotation you decide to use

A summary of the poem in your own words

Quote long passages to show familiarity

Avoid quotation and describe the poem generally

Quote short, precise details, embed them, then analyse their effect

Quote only the first and last lines

It guarantees you will rhyme your own answer

It tells you the poet's intentions for certain

It is only useful for sonnets

Stumbles in rhythm, unexpected line breaks and harsh sounds often mark where meaning is concentrated

The subject is what the poem is literally about; the theme is the idea or attitude the poem develops about it

There is no difference; they are the same thing

The theme is the title and the subject is the last line

The subject is figurative and the theme is literal

Only the literal meaning of each word

What the image makes the reader see and feel, and how it serves the poem's meaning

How many images the poem contains

Whether the image is a simile or a metaphor and nothing more

Sound should be ignored in analysis

Only rhyme matters, not rhythm

Effects like rhythm and harsh or soft sounds enact feeling and reinforce meaning

Sound only matters when reading aloud in performance

With a new quotation and no comment

With a summary of the whole poem

By naming another device to use next time

By linking the detail back to the thesis or controlling idea

Because both reward close reading that explains how choices create effect and meaning

Because both reward memorised quotations

Because the unseen poem is always easier

Because set poems are never analysed closely

Add the poet's date of birth

Explain how the rhyme and the enjambment shape the reader's experience and reinforce meaning

Replace it with a plot summary of the poem

Remove all mention of form