Poetry anthology overview quiz - OCR GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 01, Section A

Component 01, Section B

Component 02, Section A

Component 02, Section B

Power and Conflict, the anthology cluster

Songs of Ourselves, Volume One and Two

Moon on the Tides, the GCSE collection

Towards a World Unknown

Conflict, Love and relationships, Youth and age

Power and conflict, Love and relationships, Worlds and lives

Time and place, Relationships, Conflict

Nature, War, Love

Only the named anthology poem, with nothing else printed beside it

Two completely unseen poems that you have never studied before at all

A named anthology poem and an unseen poem, both for comparison

One poem and a prose extract that you are asked to compare together

Because part (b) is set entirely as a multiple choice test on the anthology

Because context and the period attitudes of the time are not assessed at all in this section

Because the poems in the anthology are all extremely long and hard to learn

Because part (b) prints no poem, so the second anthology poem is quoted from memory

Form is the kind and overall shape of the poem; structure is how it is organised and how it moves

There is no real difference between the two of them and both of the words mean exactly the same thing

Structure refers only to the imagery in a poem, while form refers only to the rhyme scheme

Form is something that is only ever found in sonnets and in no other kind of poem at all

Devices are not assessed at all anywhere in this section of the examination paper

AO2 rewards the effect, so you must explain what the device does to the reader and the meaning

Only the form of a poem counts for AO2, and devices count for nothing whatsoever

Devices are assessed under AO1 rather than under AO2, so they really belong in a different part of the answer

It is shorter and quicker to write than a poem-by-poem comparison would be

It analyses only the unseen poem and leaves out the named anthology poem entirely

It treats both poems together in every paragraph using connectives

It avoids using any quotations from either of the two poems being compared at all

The longest poem in the cluster and the one that is the most famous of them all

The first poem in the cluster, whatever the focus of the question happens to be

Any poem that you personally find difficult to understand and to remember well

A poem you know securely and that fits the question's focus tightly

Spend most of the time on part (a) and only a little on part (b)

Roughly evenly, because each part is worth 20 of the 40 marks

Spend most of the time on part (b) and only a little on part (a)

Spend all of the available time on the comparison in part (a) only