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🎖️ Power and Conflict Poetry – GCSE
English Literature · GCSE — poets, quotations, form and themes of the Power and Conflict anthology
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Which poet wrote 'Ozymandias', the poem about a ruined statue of a once-mighty king?
William Wordsworth
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Blake
20s
Which poem in the anthology contains the phrase 'mind-forg'd manacles'?
Exposure
Ozymandias
Checking Out Me History
London
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Which poet wrote 'Remains', based on a soldier's account of a shooting in Iraq?
John Agard
Ted Hughes
Wilfred Owen
Simon Armitage
20s
Which phrase is repeated as a refrain at the end of several stanzas in Owen's 'Exposure'?
Is it that we are dying?
But nothing happens
Our brains ache
What are we doing here?
30s
In which poetic form is Shelley's 'Ozymandias' written?
Free verse
Ballad
Dramatic monologue
Sonnet
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In Heaney's 'Storm on the Island', what technique is the phrase 'exploding comfortably'?
Personification
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Oxymoron
30s
Which poem includes the lines 'King, honour, human dignity, etcetera / Dropped like luxuries'?
Remains
Exposure
Bayonet Charge
The Charge of the Light Brigade
30s
In Duffy's 'War Photographer', the line 'All flesh is grass' alludes to which source?
A war newspaper report
The Bible
Homer's Iliad
Shakespeare's Macbeth
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'Half a league, half a league' in Tennyson's 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' uses which metre, mimicking galloping horses?
Spondaic
Anapaestic
Iambic
Dactylic
30s
In Garland's 'Kamikaze', how does the pilot's family come to treat him after he turns back?
As a storyteller they loved to hear
As someone who must rejoin his squadron
As a hero who had made them proud
As though he had never returned
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