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) Each of the poem's five stanzas ends with the same line: 'And still the tide comes in.'
- A. stanza
- B. enjambment
- C. refrain
- D. caesura
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 2
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. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- C. The wind is passing through.
- D. Neither I nor you:
Question 3
Type the poetic term (in English) that matches this description. A turn in thought or feeling, often at line 9 or the final couplet of a sonnet.
Answer
Question 4
Which poetic term matches this description? A line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of each stanza.
- A. end-stopped line
- B. enjambment
- C. refrain
- D. stanza
Question 5
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) The river does not stop at the end / of anything; it carries every name / it hears
- A. stanza
- B. caesura
- C. volta
- D. enjambment
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 6
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. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- C. The wind is passing through.
- D. Who has seen the wind?
Question 7
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
Question 8
Which poetic term matches this description? A line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of each stanza.
- A. caesura
- B. end-stopped line
- C. enjambment
- D. refrain
Question 9
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) We marched for hours — then the guns fell still (the dash makes a pause halfway through the line)
- A. enjambment
- B. caesura
- C. refrain
- D. stanza
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 10
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. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- C. The wind is passing through.
- D. Who has seen the wind?
Question 11
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
Question 12
Which poetic term matches this description? A line or phrase repeated at intervals, often at the end of each stanza.
- A. enjambment
- B. stanza
- C. caesura
- D. refrain
Question 13
Which poetic technique is shown? (/ marks a line break) We marched for hours — then the guns fell still (the dash makes a pause halfway through the line)
- A. refrain
- B. stanza
- C. end-stopped line
- D. caesura
Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)
Question 14
Read "Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1872)". Which line is repeated at the start of both verses?
- A. But when the trees bow down their heads,
- B. Who has seen the wind?
- C. Neither I nor you:
- D. The wind is passing through.
Question 15
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
Question 16
Which poetic term matches this description? A group of lines forming a unit in a poem, like a paragraph in prose.
- A. refrain
- B. volta
- C. stanza
- D. caesura
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