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GCSE English Power And Conflict Poetry


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Who wrote "Ozymandias"?

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

What form is "Ozymandias" written in?

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Petrarchan sonnet

What does the inscription on Ozymandias's statue say?

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Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

What is ironic about Ozymandias's statue?

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Nothing remains of his great works

Who wrote "London"?

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William Blake

What does the "mind-forged manacles" represent in "London"?

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Mental chains of oppression and social control

What technique does Blake use in "London" with "charter'd street" and "charter'd Thames"?

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Repetition to emphasize control

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Who wrote "The Prelude"?

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William Wordsworth

What form is "The Prelude" written in?

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Blank verse

What does the mountain represent in "The Prelude"?

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The awesome power of nature

Who wrote "My Last Duchess"?

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Robert Browning

What form is "My Last Duchess" written in?

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Dramatic monologue

What happened to the Duke's last duchess?

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He had her killed

What does the Duke's controlling of the curtain symbolize?

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His desire to control and possess

Who wrote "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

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Alfred Lord Tennyson

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What war does "The Charge of the Light Brigade" describe?

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The Crimean War

What is the repeated phrase in "The Charge of the Light Brigade"?

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Half a league

What does "theirs not to reason why" suggest?

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Soldiers must obey orders without question

Who wrote "Exposure"?

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Wilfred Owen

What war is described in "Exposure"?

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World War I

What is the main enemy in "Exposure"?

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The weather/cold

What does "But nothing happens" represent in "Exposure"?

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The monotony and futility of trench warfare

Who wrote "Storm on the Island"?

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Seamus Heaney

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What does the island represent in "Storm on the Island"?

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Ireland during the Troubles

What is the final word of "Storm on the Island"?

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Fear

Who wrote "Bayonet Charge"?

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Ted Hughes

What does the rifle become in "Bayonet Charge"?

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Heavy and burdensome

What technique is used in "green hedge dazzled with rifle fire"?

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Oxymoron

Who wrote "Remains"?

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Simon Armitage

What war does "Remains" describe?

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The Iraq War/Gulf War

What haunts the speaker in "Remains"?

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The memory of shooting a looter

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What does "his blood-shadow" represent?

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Guilt and trauma

Who wrote "Poppies"?

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Jane Weir

What do poppies symbolize?

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Remembrance of war dead

What is the mother doing in "Poppies"?

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Saying goodbye to her son going to war

Who wrote "War Photographer"?

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Carol Ann Duffy

What does the darkroom represent in "War Photographer"?

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A place of truth and development

What are the "spools of suffering" in "War Photographer"?

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Rolls of film containing images of war

Who wrote "Tissue"?

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Imtiaz Dharker

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What does tissue paper represent?

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The fragility of human constructs

What religious text is mentioned in "Tissue"?

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The Quran

Who wrote "The Emigree"?

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Carol Rumens

What does the sunlight represent in "The Emigree"?

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Positive childhood memories

What language technique is "There was a country... I left it as a child"?

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Ellipsis

Who wrote "Checking Out Me History"?

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John Agard

What does Toussaint L'Ouverture represent?

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Black historical figures ignored by colonial education

What technique does Agard use with different fonts?

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Visual representation of different voices

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Who wrote "Kamikaze"?

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Beatrice Garland

What made the pilot turn back?

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Thoughts of his family and the beauty of life

What technique is used in "her father embarked at sunrise"?

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Third-person narrative

What theme connects "Ozymandias" and "My Last Duchess"?

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Abuse of power

What theme connects "London" and "Checking Out Me History"?

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Oppression and control

What theme connects "Exposure" and "Bayonet Charge"?

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The reality of war

What connects "Storm on the Island" and "Tissue"?

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The fragility of human constructs

What connects "Poppies" and "War Photographer"?

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The impact of war on those left behind

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What connects "Remains" and "Kamikaze"?

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Guilt and psychological trauma

What connects "The Emigree" and "Checking Out Me History"?

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Identity and cultural memory

What does the desert in "Ozymandias" symbolize?

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The passage of time and impermanence

What does the "chartered" repetition in "London" emphasize?

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Everything is controlled and owned

What literary technique is "huge peak

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black and huge"?

What does enjambment in "My Last Duchess" show?

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The Duke's controlling

What is the effect of the dactylic dimeter in "Charge of the Light Brigade"?

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Creates the rhythm of horses charging

What does the present tense in "Exposure" achieve?

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Makes the experience immediate and ongoing

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What does the personal pronoun "we" create in "Storm on the Island"?

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Sense of community facing threat

What effect does the caesura have in "Bayonet Charge"?

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Shows the soldier's sudden realization

What does the direct address in "Remains" achieve?

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Makes the reader complicit

What does the metaphor "spasms of paper red" represent in "Poppies"?

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Blood and violence

What does the religious imagery in "War Photographer" suggest?

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The sanctity of his work

What does the extended metaphor of paper represent in "Tissue"?

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Human fragility and impermanence

What does the personification of the city in "The Emigree" show?

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The speaker's emotional attachment

What does the phonetic spelling achieve in "Checking Out Me History"?

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Represents Caribbean dialect and identity

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What does the shifted perspective in "Kamikaze" reveal?

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Different viewpoints on honor and duty

What historical context is important for "Ozymandias"?

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Shelley's republican views and critique of tyranny

What historical context matters for "London"?

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Industrial Revolution and social inequality

What movement was Wordsworth part of?

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Romanticism

What era does "My Last Duchess" represent?

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Renaissance Italy and patriarchal power

What military disaster inspired "Charge of the Light Brigade"?

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The Battle of Balaclava

What war influenced Owen's "Exposure"?

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World War I and trench warfare

What conflict influences "Storm on the Island"?

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The Northern Ireland Troubles

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What war is referenced in "Bayonet Charge"?

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World War I

What conflicts influence "Remains"?

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Modern warfare in Iraq/Afghanistan

What context is important for "Poppies"?

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Military families and loss

What does the "Rural England" reference show in "War Photographer"?

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Contrast between war zones and peaceful home

What does the "maps" reference suggest in "Tissue"?

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Borders and divisions are temporary

What historical event might "The Emigree" reference?

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Various forced migrations and exiles

What does "1066" represent in "Checking Out Me History"?

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Traditional British historical narrative

What historical context is important for "Kamikaze"?

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World War II and Japanese culture

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What technique is "sneer of cold command" in "Ozymandias"?

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Alliteration

What technique is "marks of weakness

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marks of woe" in "London"?

What technique is used in "upreared its head" in "The Prelude"?

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Personification

What technique is "as if she ranked my gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name"?

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Dramatic irony

What metre creates the charging rhythm in "Charge of the Light Brigade"?

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Dactylic dimeter

What technique is "merciless iced east winds" in "Exposure"?

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Personification and alliteration

What technique is "we are bombarded by the empty air" in "Storm on the Island"?

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Metaphor and oxymoron

What technique is "suddenly he awoke" in "Bayonet Charge"?

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Caesura

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What technique creates rhythm in "Remains"?

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Colloquial language and enjambment

What technique is "All my words flattened

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rolled

What technique is "ordinary pain which simple weather can dispel" in "War Photographer"?

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Juxtaposition

What technique is "paper that lets the light shine through" in "Tissue"?

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Metaphor

What technique is "There was a country... I left it as a child" in "The Emigree"?

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Ellipsis

What technique is the italicized sections in "Checking Out Me History"?

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Contrast through typography

What technique is "her father embarked at sunrise" in "Kamikaze"?

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Third-person narrative shift

How does "Ozymandias" show the temporary nature of power?

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The mighty statue is now broken ruins

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How does "London" present institutional power?

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As oppressive and controlling every aspect of life

How does "The Prelude" show nature's power?

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The mountain overwhelms and intimidates the speaker

How does "My Last Duchess" reveal the Duke's character?

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Through his casual mentions of murder and control

How does "Charge of the Light Brigade" glorify war?

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Through heroic language and honor

How does "Exposure" show war's reality?

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Through focus on suffering rather than glory

How does "Storm on the Island" present natural power?

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As violent and unpredictable

How does "Bayonet Charge" show war's confusion?

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Through the soldier's disoriented thoughts

How does "Remains" explore guilt?

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Through the haunting repetition of the shooting

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How does "Poppies" show war's impact on families?

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Through a mother's grief and worry

How does "War Photographer" explore moral responsibility?

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Through the photographer's duty to record truth

How does "Tissue" present power?

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As temporary and fragile like paper

How does "The Emigree" explore memory?

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Through idealized recollections of homeland

How does "Checking Out Me History" challenge authority?

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By questioning whose stories are told

How does "Kamikaze" explore conflicting loyalties?

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Through duty to country versus love of family

What is the significance of the sonnet form in "Ozymandias"?

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It contrasts the contained poem with Ozymandias's vast claims

Why does Blake repeat "charter'd" in "London"?

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To emphasize how everything is controlled and commodified

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What is the effect of blank verse in "The Prelude"?

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It mirrors natural speech while maintaining formality

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