Unseen poetry overview quiz - OCR GCSE English Literature quiz

Component 01 Section A, where it is compared with an unseen prose extract

Component 02 Section A part (a), compared with the named anthology poem

Component 02 Section B, where it sits alongside the studied Shakespeare play

It is a completely standalone paper sat separately from the two main components

No, it is read aloud to the candidates once at the start of the exam

Only the first stanza is printed and the rest must be recalled from study

Yes, both the anthology poem and the unseen poem are printed

No, the unseen poem must be memorised beforehand like the anthology one

List every poetic device you can find before reading for meaning at all

Start writing your answer immediately without reading the whole poem first

Count the syllables in each line to work out the metre before anything else

Read it twice, once for the central idea and once for method

The main feeling, argument or impression it creates as a whole

Its surface subject only, such as 'a storm' or 'a walk in the countryside'

Its rhyme scheme, written out as a pattern of letters such as ABAB or ABBA

The total number of stanzas the poet has chosen to divide the poem into

Lists of devices are banned by OCR, so naming any device at all loses you marks

AO2 rewards reaching the effect, which deep analysis shows and a list does not

Long lists of devices simply take far too long to write within the timed conditions

Devices are assessed under AO3, the context objective, rather than under AO2 at all

Running out of paper before you have finished writing the comparison answer fully

Forgetting the rhyme scheme of the anthology poem that you studied during the course

Imbalance: over-analysing the familiar anthology poem and thinning out the unseen one

Using too much background context about the poets instead of analysing the poems themselves

It always means the poem is modern and was definitely written in the last century

It is simply a mistake by the poet who has failed to organise the poem into stanzas

It has no effect at all on meaning, and the choice of form is never worth commenting on

Disorder or natural speech, whereas regular stanzas often suggest order or control

It is an idea about the question's focus that both poems address

It is a point about one of the two poems only, with no link to the other poem

It is simply the longest and most detailed point you can manage to write down

It is a point about the poet's own life and the events that shaped their writing

Because the unseen poem is always shorter than the anthology poem you studied

So the unseen poem is fully analysed and the comparison stays balanced

Because the anthology poem you studied in class is not actually assessed at all

To save time, since the unseen poem can be covered far more quickly than the other

Because the unseen task is worth by far the most marks of any part of the paper

Because the poems set are always the very same ones, so practice lets you learn them off

Because nothing needs memorising, so the reading skill improves fast with repetition

Because the unseen section is sat open book, so practice is about finding the poems