AS Unit 2 Poetry Post-1900 overview quiz - WJEC A-Level English Literature quiz

Open-book, with clean unannotated copies of the collections

Closed-book, with no texts allowed in the exam at all

Open-book, but only for the comparison, not the single poem

It is coursework, so there is no exam to sit

A comparison of two whole collections at once

A critical analysis of a single post-1900 poem

An essay on a pre-1900 prose novel

A response to an unseen poem from an unknown poet

To memorise the poem so the clean copy is not needed

To count the exact number of lines and stanzas it has

Once for the central experience and movement, once for craft

To check the poet's biography matches the printed text

The colour of the cover of the printed collection

The retail price of the poet's collected works

The name of the examiner marking the paper

The volta or turn, and shifts of tense or person

Feature-spotting quotes the poem; analysis never quotes it

Feature-spotting names a method; analysis explains its effect

Feature-spotting is longer; analysis is always much shorter

There is no difference; the two terms mean the same thing

An analysis of one poem in complete isolation

A comparison of the two studied post-1900 collections

A close reading of a Shakespeare soliloquy

A whole-text essay on a pre-1900 prose novel

Covering as many poems as possible from each collection

Writing everything about poet A, then everything about poet B

An integrated argument organised by comparative points

Quoting the poems without any analysis of method

AO4, exploring connections across literary texts

AO2, the analysis of literary method

AO1, an informed and well-written response

AO3, the significance and influence of contexts

In the first poem, the speaker walks through a wood

The poet was born in the early twentieth century

This stanza has ten lines and a regular rhyme scheme

Whereas the first poet finds consolation, the second finds none

To explain a contrast between how the two poets treat the theme

As a separate opening paragraph of pure biography

By ignoring it entirely, since AO3 is not assessed here

By listing every fact known about both poets' lives

It fixes the exact retail price of the collection

It runs a sentence over a line break, spilling the meaning on

It records the date the poem was first published

It names the metre used in every line of the poem

Tracking how the poem's tone shifts across its movement

Anchoring each point in a precisely quoted word or line

Paraphrasing the poem instead of analysing how it works

Reaching a coherent interpretation of the whole poem

Two hours, worth 20% of the A level

Three hours, worth 40% of the A level

One hour, worth 10% of the A level

Two and a half hours, worth 30% of the A level

Because the examiner counts how few poems you mention

Because only one poem from each collection may be used

Because a few closely analysed poems beat many covered shallowly

Because breadth is banned by the WJEC mark scheme