Poetry anthology overview quiz - Edexcel GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 1, Section A

Component 2, Section A

Component 2, Section B, Part 1

Component 2, Section B, Part 2

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Power and Conflict

Love and Relationships

Worlds and Lives

Time and Place

It prints one named poem and you compare it with one of your choice from the same collection

It prints two named poems for you and you simply compare the two poems on the paper

You write a detailed analysis of one single poem only, with no comparison at all

You compare one poem from your collection with a poem from a completely different collection

AO1 carries 15 marks and AO2 carries 5 marks across the answer

AO2 15, AO3 5 (with AO1 throughout)

AO3 carries 15 marks and AO4 carries 5 marks for the comparison

AO2 carries 5 marks and AO4 carries 15 marks for the response

Write about all of poem one first, and then write about all of poem two afterwards

Write a plain summary of what happens in each of the two poems in turn

Make a long list of the poetic devices that appear in each of the poems

One comparative point per paragraph, both poems together, joined by connectives

You are not told in advance which poem will be named

Both of the poems you write about are printed for you on the paper

Only three of the poems in the collection are ever set in the exam

The poems in the collection are changed by the board every single year

Simply how well you happen to know it already, regardless of how well it links to the named poem

The strength of the comparison: clear similarities and differences on the question's focus

The length of the poem, choosing whichever one is the shortest to save time

Its position in the collection, choosing whichever poem comes next after the named one

A particular type of rhyme scheme that runs all the way through a whole poem

A stanza made up of exactly four lines, also known as a quatrain

A turn or shift in a poem where the argument, mood or feeling changes

A poem that is written with no punctuation marks anywhere in it

A full separate paragraph of historical background for each of the two poems

No context at all, since the question is only ever about poetic methods

Context placed only in the conclusion, kept well away from the main analysis

One or two embedded context clauses per poem, since AO3 is only 5 marks

Your chosen second poem

The named poem that is printed for you

Both the named poem and your chosen poem

Neither poem, since both are printed for you