Poetry Analysis
GCE Literature in English

Read the poem below carefully and answer the questions that follow. The Eagle He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring'd with the azure world, he stands. The wri…

Read the poem below carefully and answer the questions that follow. The Road Not Taken (Extract) Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I sto…

Which of the following best describes the mood of a poem that contains these lines: 'I have no tears left to weep, / No voice to call, no will to speak'?

Consider the lines: 'The sun is a golden coin / Tossed by the gods across the sky.' These lines are an example of

In poetry, a group of lines forming a unit within a poem is called a

Read the following extract: 'O Death, where is thy sting? / O Grave, where is thy victory?' The poet is addressing

Read the following lines: 'The harmattan comes with its dusty breath, / Choking the land in a shroud of grey.' The figure of speech used in 'dusty breath' is

A poem in which the first letter of each line, read downward, spells out a word or message is called

Read the following lines carefully: 'His words were honeyed lies, / Sweet on the tongue, poison to the soul.' The dominant literary device in these lines is

In the analysis of a poem's rhyme scheme, the lines of the following stanza — 'The eagle soars above the hill (A) / And surveys the land below (B) / The rivers run against their will (A) / Through val…

The repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of closely connected words, as in 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,' is known as

In the line 'The market women chattered like a flock of weaver birds,' the poet uses