The cards Question What does 'monosyllabic' mean? Tap to flip Answer Consisting of one syllable. Question What does 'polysyllabic' mean? Tap to flip Answer Having more than one syllable. Question What is a plosive sound? Tap to flip Answer A sound made with an abrupt release of air, e.g. 'p', 'b', 'd' or 't'. Question What does 'sombre' mean? Tap to flip Answer Having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness. Question What does a poem's title often give an indication of? Tap to flip Answer The poem's atmosphere and tone. Question What do enjambment and caesuras affect in a poem? Tap to flip Answer Its pace. Question What can a break in a poem's rhyme scheme affect? Tap to flip Answer The meaning of the poem. Question Do a poem's structural choices happen by accident? Tap to flip Answer No. The poet makes them consciously to influence the poem's meaning. Question What is sub-text? Tap to flip Answer The implicit meaning of a text: the underlying message that is not explicitly stated or shown. Question In poetry, what can personal possessions of loved ones be used as? Tap to flip Answer Symbols that represent the person. Question Understanding extended metaphors can help you understand which part of a poem's meaning? Tap to flip Answer Its sub-text. Question In poetry, what is the speaker? Tap to flip Answer The voice behind a poem. Question Is the speaker of a poem the same as the poet? Tap to flip Answer No, the speaker is different to the poet. Question What can a conversational tone in a poem help to develop? Tap to flip Answer A personal connection with the reader. Question What is euphony? Tap to flip Answer The combining of words or sounds that sound pleasant together. Question What is a connotation? Tap to flip Answer A feeling or idea suggested by a word in addition to its basic meaning. Question What is a semantic field? Tap to flip Answer A group of words that all link to the same theme or idea. Question How is a simile conceptually different from a metaphor? Tap to flip Answer In a simile one thing does not become another; in a metaphor they do become each other. Question What does 'judicious' mean? Tap to flip Answer Having or showing reason and good judgement in making decisions. Question What does 'evocative' mean? Tap to flip Answer Bringing strong images, memories or feelings to mind. Question What is a stereotype? Tap to flip Answer A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Question What does it mean to subvert an idea or convention? Tap to flip Answer To go against it so that it might surprise or challenge the audience. Question What does 'conform' mean? Tap to flip Answer To behave according to a group's usual standards and expectations. Question What do the best comparisons of poems arguably explore? Tap to flip Answer Subtle differences within similarities. Question What is ambiguity? Tap to flip Answer A situation in which something has more than one possible meaning. Question When organising your thoughts on a poem chronologically, what might you consider? Tap to flip Answer What happens at the beginning, middle and end of the poem. Question Is there one correct way to organise your thoughts in a plan? Tap to flip Answer No. There is no definitive way; a plan is designed to help you see what your argument is. Question What is the difference between tone and mood in a poem? Tap to flip Answer Tone is the writer's attitude towards the subject matter; mood is the effect the writing has on the reader. Question Give one sound technique a poet might use. Tap to flip Answer E.g. onomatopoeia or sibilance. Question What effect can onomatopoeia arguably have on the reader? Tap to flip Answer It immerses them in the poem and makes them feel as if they are experiencing it. Question Does sibilance only create a sinister atmosphere? Tap to flip Answer No, it can also create a soothing atmosphere. Question What is transience? Tap to flip Answer The state or fact of lasting only for a short time. Question What does 'ephemeral' mean? Tap to flip Answer Lasting for a very short time. Question Must the idea of life being temporary always be sad? Tap to flip Answer No. It might inspire us to live life to the fullest. Question Besides language, what else can you compare in two poems? Tap to flip Answer Their use of form, structure and voice. Question What does an effective conclusion to a poetry essay do? Tap to flip Answer Summarises the argument and gestures to what it might say about society. Question What is tentative writing? Tap to flip Answer Writing in a way that shows you are not certain. Question Why use tentative language when analysing a poem? Tap to flip Answer It acknowledges that we are exploring poets' intentions and that there are many valid interpretations. Question Give one feature that effective analytical writing may include. Tap to flip Answer E.g. active voice, tentative language or explanation of ideas. Question Give one feature that less successful analytical writing may include. Tap to flip Answer E.g. passive voice or repetition. Question Besides the techniques a poet uses, what can be powerful to analyse? Tap to flip Answer Why a poet may have chosen not to use a technique, in contrast to one who did. Question What does a comparative response to two poems explore? Tap to flip Answer The similarities and differences in how the two poems present an idea or concept. Where this deck sits in the curriculum Curriculum National Curriculum for England Stage GCSE (Years 10–11) Course GCSE English Unit Unseen poetry Exam boards AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas England's National Curriculum sets what is taught; the units and their order are Oak National Academy's. Flash Feed is not affiliated with Oak or any exam board.
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Show the other sources (16) Primary source Analysing tone in an unseen poem (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Analysing use of sound in an unseen poem (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Comparing ideas about transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Analysing extended responses to ideas of transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Analysing how poets present ideas of transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Writing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Reviewing a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Planning a comparative response to ideas of transience in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Structural analysis of unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Understanding sub-text in unseen poems (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Conceptualising and analysing speaker and voice in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Identifying and analysing semantic fields in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Explaining comparative imagery in unseen poetry (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Selecting and using quotations from an unseen poem (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Comparing how poets present motherhood and maternal stereotypes in unseen poems (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Primary source Developing a personal response to an unseen poem (opens in a new tab) (Oak National Academy, thenational.academy) Found a mistake? Write to support@flashfeed.app .
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