Poetic structure
10th grade (Year 11 in England) · 16 questions · Common Core: RL.9-10.5, RL.9-10.4 · England: GCSE English Literature (poetry), GCSE English Language Paper 1
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Question 1
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) I waited for the bus that never came / around the corner where the streetlights hum
- A. enjambment
- B. volta
- C. end-stopped line
- D. stanza
Question 2
Which poetic term matches this description? A group of lines forming a unit in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
- A. volta
- B. caesura
- C. stanza
- D. refrain
Question 3
Type the poetic term (in English) that matches this description. A line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of each stanza.
Answer
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 4
Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". Which line is repeated at the start of both verses?
- A. Neither I nor you:
- B. Who has seen the wind?
- C. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- D. The wind is passing through.
Question 5
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) I waited for the bus that never came / around the corner where the streetlights hum
- A. enjambment
- B. caesura
- C. refrain
- D. end-stopped line
Question 6
Which poetic term matches this description? A sentence or phrase that runs on from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.
- A. caesura
- B. enjambment
- C. refrain
- D. stanza
Question 7
Type the poetic term (in English) that matches this description. A group of lines forming a unit in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
Answer
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 8
Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". Which line is repeated at the start of both verses?
- A. Who has seen the wind?
- B. Neither I nor you:
- C. The wind is passing through.
- D. But when the trees bow down their heads,
Question 9
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) Each of the poem's five stanzas ends with the same line: 'And still the tide comes in.'
- A. enjambment
- B. caesura
- C. refrain
- D. stanza
Question 10
Which poetic term matches this description? A line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of each stanza.
- A. volta
- B. stanza
- C. refrain
- D. caesura
Question 11
Type the poetic term (in English) that matches this description. A strong pause in the middle of a line, usually marked by punctuation.
Answer
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 12
Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". Which line is repeated at the start of both verses?
- A. Who has seen the wind?
- B. Neither I nor you:
- C. The wind is passing through.
- D. But when the trees bow down their heads,
Question 13
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) Every line in the stanza ends with a full stop, so each thought finishes exactly where its line does.
- A. stanza
- B. caesura
- C. refrain
- D. end-stopped line
Question 14
Which poetic term matches this description? A sentence or phrase that runs on from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.
- A. caesura
- B. stanza
- C. enjambment
- D. volta
Question 15
Type the poetic term (in English) that matches this description. A sentence or phrase that runs on from one line of poetry to the next without a pause.
Answer
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 16
Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". Which line is repeated at the start of both verses?
- A. Who has seen the wind?
- B. Neither I nor you:
- C. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- D. The wind is passing through.
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