Starter quiz

  • A comparative poetry question asks you to...
    • compare similarities only
    • compare differences only
    • compare similarities and differences  ✓
  • Match the poems to the correct mood.
    • 'The Soldier'
      ⇔
      peaceful ✓
    • 'The Gift of India'
      ⇔
      despair ✓
    • 'In Flanders Fields'
      ⇔
      reassuring ✓
  • The way the writer thinks or feels about the subject they are writing about is called the __________ of a poem.
    • attitude  ✓
    • form
    • speaker
    • language
  • Match the poem with the speaker of the poem.
    • 'The Soldier'
      ⇔
      The soldier ✓
    • 'The Gift of India'
      ⇔
      India ✓
    • 'In Flanders Fields'
      ⇔
      The dead soldiers ✓
  • Which of the following are important to think about when deciding which poems to compare?
    • What similarities and differences in techniques there are  ✓
    • How long the poems are
    • Do the poets agree or disagree on the central theme of the question?  ✓
    • Are the poets from two different time periods?
  • It's useful to think about comparative essays as if the poets are having ______ with each other.
    • an argument
    • a conversation  ✓
    • a disagreement
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