Eduqas Anthology Pick N Mix Tasks Revision Guide
Eduqas Anthology Pick N Mix Tasks Revision Guide
Eduqas Anthology Pick N Mix Tasks Revision Guide
Terminology: repetition; ideas/words phrases repeated, metaphor; comparison of something as something else, hyperbole; use of exaggeration
for effect, imagery; creating a picture in the mind of the reader, simile; comparison using like or as, tone – the impression you are given of how the
words sound, emotive language; appeals to reader emotions, personification; makes an object sound human, Use of complex sentences; to explore
in detail emotions; pathetic fallacy; sets the tone/mood/atmosphere. End-stopping; punctuation at the end of line, caesura; punctuation in the
middle of a line; enjambment; run on lines in the poem; stanza’s; the verses of the poem; layout; how it appears and what effect this has,
connotations; implied meanings
Revision Guide for the Exam Anthology
Literature Reading Comparison Tips & Exercises
• What you should/could cover in developed concise analysis – Comparing (similarities) Contrasting (differences)
RED Minimum, ORANGE Most, GREEN Some (You know which
you can aim to include) Compared with… However…
• Link to the question (RED) Similarly… On the other hand…
• Link to the terminology (Lang/Structure – evaluating In the same way… On the contrary…
choice) (ORANGE)
Likewise… Instead…
• Short Quote(s) (RED) Equally… As for…
• Explain meaning and effect – both obvious and hidden As with… Alternatively…
(explicit and implicit) (RED)
…are similar in that… Despite this…
• Zoom in on words/explore connotations and effect
(ORANGE) …whereas…
• Suggest what other readers might think/feel (offering an …while...
alternative opinion) (GREEN) …although…
• Link to the writer’s intentions (step out from the close …yet…
analysis to give an overview of meaning) (GREEN)
• Explore a linking quote/supporting idea (GREEN)
• Anthology you will – link to context (RED)
• Comparing – use comparison connectives to move onto the Use the Poetry Place Mat on the next page as a
next point/idea/quote (RED) planning guide to help you
Timing – plan 5 min. write 15 Sentence starters: In the poem we see…
Anthology; single poem essay this suggests/implies/infers/conveys…
mins. The poet implies/shows… Linking this to the time/place/intentions
Terminology: repetition; ideas/words phrases repeated, metaphor; comparison of something as something else, hyperbole; use of exaggeration for
effect, imagery; creating a picture in the mind of the reader, simile; comparison using like or as, tone – the impression you are given of how the
words sound, emotive language; appeals to reader emotions, personification; makes an object sound human, Use of complex sentences; to explore
in detail emotions; pathetic fallacy; sets the tone/mood/atmosphere. End-stopping; punctuation at the end of line, caesura; punctuation in the
middle of a line; enjambment; run on lines in the poem; stanza’s; the verses of the poem; layout; how it appears and what effect this has,
connotations; implied meanings
Poem Quote Context Link
The Manhunt “handle and hold” Eddie’s wife Laura is discovering how fragile Eddie is after War Context linked to specific quotes from the Anthology
By Armitage being shot. The first line of each couplet reinforces this – Your task – create your own charts with other examples
and the structure also indicates that they are a couple
getting through this together. Dulce Et “like old beggars under Reflects that young men looked worn out and old
Decorum Est By sacks” before their time as a result of the terrible conditions
“Parachute silk of the The bullet that shot Eddie Beddoes ricocheted through Owen and events they endured during the war.
punctured lung” his body, damaging many of his internal organs.
“But limped on, blood- Having lost their boots or having constantly wet feet
“only then would I come Emotional damage and trauma suffered by Eddie as a shod” many men suffered horrific injuries such as trench
close” result of being shot on a peacekeeping mission – he foot which was a disease that meant amputation for
feared balloons at his children’s parties and suffered many, however at the time they had to carry on in
PTSD because of the trauma. spite of the hardships and pain.
The Soldier By “forever England” The patriotism in the poem suggests that even in death
Brookes glory will come to the soldiers who have fought and died “The old lie” Reinforces the fact that the army and the
for their country. government were unaware of what was going to
happen in the war and that when they did know they
“blest by suns of home” Brooke’s never experienced the true horror of war and continued to use propaganda to encourage men to
this is clear from the hyperbolic tone in the poem – the go to war. Thousands of men lost their lives due to
tone here indicates that the poem was written prior to the ‘lies’ or propaganda that encouraged them to go
the outbreak of war. to war.
“English heaven” Mametz Wood “For years afterwards” The effect of the war was devastating and long-
Propaganda poem to encourage young men to sign up to By Sheers lasting as even when war had finished many bodies
become soldiers and the overtly sentimental feeling in of men who fought in war had not been recovered.
the final line may have encouraged men to see becoming “to walk not run”
a soldier as a higher calling. Links to the instructions given to the soldiers by the
A Wife in London “The Tragedy” A telegram was received from the war office, which for a commanding officers who had no idea of the
By Hardy wife at home with a husband away in the Boer war in brutality that was to come. It could suggest that the
South Africa, would have signalled bad news. officers were incompetent or that the horror and
“absent tongues” barbarity with the new machinery (like machine
“The Irony” A letter is received by the wife the day after the telegram guns) was unprecedented.
explaining the excitement of the husband to be coming
home. Sheers wanted to reinforce the fact that many of the
Welsh soldiers who went to war were not given a
“in the far South Land” South Africa is referenced here and would have voice and were not remembered for the part that
reinforced the reality for many women, whose husbands they played in the war. By reinforcing this in the
were away fighting in the Boer war, with little poem it gives them back a voice and tells the story of
correspondence or understanding of when they would be what happened to their brigade at Mametz Wood.
The Manhunt
Transform: Create a story or a After the first phase, Consider: What was Simon Armitage
summary of the poem explaining after passionate nights and intimate days, saying literally, metaphorically &
what happens in the poem and only then would he let me trace symbolically?
the frozen river which ran through his face,
how his mental and physical What can we learn from the poem?
injuries are presented. Or, create a only then would he let me explore How can we change our behaviour or
the blown hinge of his lower jaw,
visual representation of the poem. society’s behaviour based on these
and handle and hold
Plan your transform task: the damaged, porcelain collar-bone, lessons?
What society without a need for
and mind and attend
the fractured rudder of shoulder-blade, Peacekeeping missions would look like?
and finger and thumb
the parachute silk of his punctured lung.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, Prioritise: Choose your top five
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
Criticise: “The officers and quotes from the poem and explode
government officials in charge If in some smothering dreams you too could pace them with:
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
of the war effort were culpable And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, Meaning/Effect
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
for the unnecessary deaths of If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Zooming in on a word in the quote
many soldiers” Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Use triplets to develop your ideas
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— Focus on context
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
How can Dulce et Decorum To children ardent for some desperate glory, Exploration of the connotations
Est support or disprove this The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Exploration of the context that links
Pro patria mori.
statement? & why
Transform: Write a story from Mametz Wood
Consider:
the perspective of the soldiers. For years afterwards the farmers found them – Look up Owen Sheers on YouTube
Think about: the wasted young, turning up under their plough blades talking about his visit to Mametz
as they tended the land back into itself.
The senses & emotions Wood:
created in this stressful time. A chit of bone, the china plate of a shoulder blade, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
the relic of a finger, the blown
How did the feel? What did and broken bird’s egg of a skull, =O6D8CEtUxfE
they see? What was going
all mimicked now in flint, breaking blue in white
through their minds? What across this field where they were told to walk, not run,
What do you learn from this?
noises were they hearing? towards the wood and its nesting machine guns.
Lethal.
Its scent will cling to your fingers,
cling to your knife.
Transform: Cozy Apologia by Rita Dove (for Fred) Consider:
I could pick anything and think of you—
Write a story to explore the fairy- This lamp, the wind-still rain, the glossy blue
My pen exudes, drying matte, upon the page.
tale element that is in the poem. I could choose any hero, any cause or age How is masculinity presented in the
And, sure as shooting arrows to the heart,
Astride a dappled mare, legs braced as far apart
poem?
Plan your transform task: As standing in silver stirrups will allow— What does this suggest about Dove’s
There you'll be, with furrowed brow
And chain mail glinting, to set me free: views about men and women?
One eye smiling, the other firm upon the enemy. How could these views be linked to
This post-postmodern age is all business: compact context?
disks
And faxes, a do-it-now-and-take-no-risks
Event. Today a hurricane is nudging up the coast,
Oddly male: Big Bad Floyd, who brings a host
Of daydreams: awkward reminiscences
Of teenage crushes on worthless boys
Whose only talent was to kiss you senseless.
Criticise: Dove could be seen as They all had sissy names—Marcel, Percy, Dewey; Prioritise:
Were thin as licorice and as chewy,
selfish due to her contentment Sweet with a dark and hollow center. Floyd's
while a storm rages and threatens Cussing up a storm. You're bunkered in your
Select 10 quotes and rank order them in
her fellow Americans Aerie, I'm perched in mine terms of showing the most love and care
(Twin desks, computers, hardwood floors):
We're content, but fall short of the Divine. to the least love and care.
Still, it's embarrassing, this happiness—
Who's satisfied simply with what's good for us,
Challenge this statement When has the ordinary ever been news? Explain why you have rank ordered them
And yet, because nothing else will do
To keep me from melancholy (call it blues), in this way.
I fill this stolen time with you.
Transform: Consider:
Write out the problem What would it feel like to love someone
you identify in the first so much that you would want to spend
8 lines and the eternity with them?
Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning How would you go about expressing
solutions in the final 6
this love to them?
lines and explain what How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. What words would you use to express
Barrett Browning was I love thee to the depth and breadth and height your feelings?
preoccupied with. My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of every day’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
Criticise: Barrett I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. Prioritise:
Browning is a hopeless I love thee with the passion put to use Explore the structure – Look for all
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.
romantic and needs to the patterns and explain which is
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
be less soppy! With my lost saints – I love thee with the breath, the strongest pattern and why
Smiles, tears, of all my life! – and, if God choose,
Challenge this I shall but love thee better after death. Explore the context – Link to
statement religion and humanity and hope
and decide which is the strongest
and explain why?
Transform: She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron Consider:
The idea of obsession – how are
Dual code the poem – choose She walks in beauty, like the night different types of obsession shown
two quotes from each stanza and Of cloudless climes and starry skies; in the poem?
link these to images – can be And all that’s best of dark and bright
drawn, copied and pasted or Meet in her aspect and her eyes; What is the persona like? How do
Thus mellowed to that tender light you know?
symbols. Choose
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
symbols/pictures that help you
remember the quotes and the One shade the more, one ray the less,
storyline. Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o’er her face;
Criticise: Byron is a well-known Where thoughts serenely sweet express, Prioritise:
lothario figure with an eye for How pure, how dear their dwelling-
the ladies. Challenge this place. Select – your top 5 quotes from the
statement and explore how you poem
could agree or disagree with this And on that cheek, and o’er that brow,
based on evidence in the poem So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, Demonstrate – your understanding
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
of the way context can be linked to
But tell of days in goodness spent,
Challenge this! A mind at peace with all below, these 5 quotes
A heart whose love is innocent!
Transform: Consider:
Grief
Translate the words in the poem What is it?
As Imperceptibly as Grief What does it look like?
into an easier to understand
modern translation. As imperceptibly as Grief How can you show it?
Why does she use hard to The Summer lapsed away — How does it differ between
understand language? Too imperceptible at last people?
Does it link to her state of mind? To seem like Perfidy — Why is it an abstract noun?
A Quietness distilled
As Twilight long begun,
Or Nature spending with herself
Sequestered Afternoon —
Criticise: Dickinson was reclusive, The Dusk drew earlier in — Prioritise:
The Morning foreign shone —
but prolifically corresponded via
A courteous, yet harrowing Grace,
letter and wrote many poems in As Guest, that would be gone — Indicate what the hyphens at the
her lifetime. And thus, without a Wing end of the lines suggest?
Or service of a Keel Why have they been used on the
What does this suggest about her Our Summer made her light escape lines that have them and not
mental state? Into the Beautiful. others?
What would you recommend for End-stopping is used with the full
her to do? stop in the final line – Why?
Love Poems: Possible Exam questions & exercises – remember you
can also just do a single poem with the same focus as the
comparison question
• Compare the way two of the poems • Use your Anthology Poems KO to re-learn
explore the emotions of the persona key information
(person in the poem) • Quiz yourself
• Compare the presentation of love in • Explore other examples of context
two of the poems • Watch & make notes using the many
• Compare the way the poets write examples of analysis videos on YouTube
about feelings • Listen to the podcasts created by
• Compare the way women in @ChurchillEng on the Weebly:
relationships are presented in two http://churchillacademyenglish.weebly.com
of the poems /gcse-revision-podcasts.html
• Compare the negative aspects of • Use memorise
love • Re-annotate the poems
• Practice writing essays & planning them
London “charter’d The streets and river itself (a natural element) seems to have
By Blake streets…charter’d been organised around the people inhabiting the space, as Place Poems Context linked to specific quotes from the
Thames” opposed to the space dictating to the people how to live. Anthology – create your own charts with other examples
Industrial Revolution is physically changing the look of the
Afternoons “young mothers A scene played out across the countries where mums gather
“Blacken’ng churches outside and the smog is discolouring the buildings.
By Larkin assemble” with their children at playgrounds to allow their children to
Church appals” Religion was significant, and England was predominantly
run off steam and play.
Christian, so the idea of religious discord being implied here
creates an understanding that Blake is critiquing the way
“Our Wedding” Traditional family roles being referenced and the idea that
Churches behaved in Victorian London.
the marriage becomes less important when family life takes
over.
The end line of the poem indicates one of the two certainties
in life that we all die and contextually this could also be
“pushing them As the young have children of their own, the needs and
“Marriage important as marriage is a religiously significant ceremony, so
To the side of wants and desires change for people. Life continues to
hearse” perhaps this is symbolic of Blake’s negative outlook on life
their own life” change and adapt as you grow up and your own children
and the fact that this is a poem from Songs of Experience.
become more important than yourself.
Living Space By Dharker “There are not enough straight This directly references the way that the shanty towns in India have little order or structural safety in the way they are
lines” built. The homes are constructed out of waste materials and all appear to be rickety and dangerous, emphasised in this
line.
Dharker when visiting the poverty and hardship evident in the shanty towns was struck by the optimism and faith of
“towards the miraculous” the people living in these conditions.
This shows the importance of having faith in humanity, something that Dharker has and uses in her work to raise
“walls of faith” awareness of the plight of people in more difficult circumstances than our own.
Ozymandias By “I met a traveller from an Calls on the tradition of oral storytelling to open the poem and would have been
Shelley ancient land” understood by Shelley’s audience as he loved the tradition.
“king of kings”
References the Pharaoh Rameses iii who was a cruel and cold ruler and had his likeness
“Colossal wreck” immortalised in sculpture.
No matter how extensive and grand the work you have made to immortalise yourself (in
this case a giant sculpture) time and weather will work to destroy it and this could be seen
as a warning against the desire for power.
Transform: Living Space Consider: Living in a slum – What
Draw a picture of the place that There are just not enough emotions/feelings and experience
straight lines. That might you have?
Dharker is describing and label
is the problem.
the images with quotes from the What would your life be like?
Nothing is flat
poem. or parallel. Beams
balance crookedly on supports Explore pictures and films of these
thrust off the vertical. living conditions on the internet.
Nails clutch at open seams. What does this tell you?
The whole structure leans dangerously
towards the miraculous.
Into this rough frame,
someone has squeezed
Criticise: a living space Prioritise: Your thoughts and
feelings about the living space that
and even dared to place
Humanity has gone astray. The these eggs in a wire basket, these people have.
way people have to live in abject fragile curves of white
poverty is appalling. hung out over the dark edge Create a emotion line of emotions
of a slanted universe, and consider which is the strongest
Criticise this opinion with gathering the light and weakest and why?
evidence to reflect there is hope into themselves,
from the poem. as if they were E.g. – Pity – fairly strong because…
the bright, thin walls of faith.
Transform: Imagine you are the Consider: Your own hopes and
narrator observing this scene. Afternoons dreams and ambitions.
Summer is fading:
Explain what you actually see and The leaves fall in ones and twos Do they include marriage and
From trees bordering children and what does Afternoons
what it suggests about working The new recreation ground.
class people. In the hollows of afternoons suggest about these?
Young mothers assemble
At swing and sandpit
Setting free their children.
Then one hot day when fields were rank Life stages – which is seen as most
With cowdung in the grass the angry frogs
Heaney’s life – look for elements Invaded the flax-dam; I ducked through hedges important in the poem and why?
in context that meant he changed To a coarse croaking that I had not heard
Before. The air was thick with a bass chorus.
from being carefree and innocent Right down the dam gross-bellied frogs were cocked
On sods; their loose necks pulsed like sails. Some hopped:
to being careful and fearful. The slap and plop were obscene threats. Some sat
Poised like mud grenades, their blunt heads farting.
I sickened, turned, and ran. The great slime kings
Were gathered there for vengeance and I knew
That if I dipped my hand the spawn would clutch it.
Transform: Imagine you are the Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes Consider:
prey of the hawk – what do you I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed.
see/think and feel about his Inaction, no falsifying dream The Hawk
Between my hooked head and hooked feet:
arrogance and feelings of Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.
supremacy? Describe the hawk in 20 words and
The convenience of the high trees!
explain how it makes you feel?
The air's buoyancy and the sun's ray
Are of advantage to me;
And the earth's face upward for my inspection. What gender would you associate with
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.
the hawk and why?
It took the whole of Creation
To produce my foot, my each feather:
Now I hold Creation in my foot
Into a emotion time line – Where Excerpt from The Prelude The form – semi-autobiographical
do changes of emotion occur in
And in the frosty season, when the sun
the poem and how do you know. Was set, and visible for many a mile What does this imply about
The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d, Wordsworth and what does it teach
I heeded not the summons: – happy time
It was, indeed, for all of us; to me
us about his childhood?
It was a time of rapture: clear and loud
The village clock toll’d six; I wheel’d about,
Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse,
That cares not for his home. – All shod with steel,
We hiss’d along the polish’d ice, in games
Confederate, imitative of the chace
And woodland pleasures, the resounding horn,
Criticise: The Pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare. Prioritise:
So through the darkness and the cold we flew,
And not a voice was idle; with the din,
The ending of the excerpt. Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud,
The leafless trees, and every icy crag Events – Select four events in the
Tinkled like iron, while the distant hills
Is it effective? Why? Why not? Into the tumult sent an alien sound poem excerpt and examine the
Of melancholy, not unnoticed, while the stars, importance of these events. Which
Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west
The orange sky of evening died away.
is the most influential to
Wordsworth and why?
Nature Poems: Possible Exam questions & exercises – remember you
can also just do a single poem with the same focus as the
comparison question
• Compare the way two of the poems • Use your Anthology Poems KO to re-learn
explore the emotions linked to key information
nature • Quiz yourself
• Compare the presentation of nature • Explore other examples of context
in two of the poems • Watch & make notes using the many
• Compare the way the poets write examples of analysis videos on YouTube
about their feelings in relation to • Listen to the podcasts created by
nature @ChurchillEng on the Weebly:
• Compare the way growing up is http://churchillacademyenglish.weebly.com
presented /gcse-revision-podcasts.html
• Compare the negative aspects of • Use memorise
nature • Re-annotate the poems
• Practice writing essays & planning them