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6. Why does Carol Ann Duffy use religious imagery in 'War Photographer'?

  • To show the photographer is carrying out a sacred task
  • Because the photographer is a religious man
  • Carol Ann Duffy is very religious herself and wanted to portray this through her poetry
  • the photographer now lives in a church, where he develops his photographs

7. In Craig Raine's 'A Martian Sends a Postcard Home', what is the 'haunted apparatus' (line 19)?

  • A baby
  • Telephone
  • Alarm clock

8. 'Bedtime Story' by George Macbeth is about the human race evolving from primates

  • False
  • True

9. 'An Advancement of Learning' tells the story of a boy overcoming his fears.

  • True
  • False

10. 'Once Upon a Time' is written in the first person which makes it...

  • Ironic
  • Intimate
  • Easier for the reader to understand

11. In 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath who is speaking in first person?

  • The young girl
  • The mirror
  • The old woman

12. The whole poem 'My Grandmother' is about...

  • The poet
  • Where the poet
  • The antique shop

13. Larkin in 'Afternoons' uses many words ending in '-ing' because it places the poem in the present.

  • True
  • False

14. 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost uses formal language.

  • False
  • True

15. Why does Charles Causley's poem refer to Jesus as the 'Bread Man'?

  • because bread represents Jesus
  • Because Jesus was a baker
  • because bread is constantly referred to in the poem

16. Ted Hughes joins words together such as 'dawn-dirty' (line 1) because it illustrates that his perception is distorted so he is unsure what actually happened.

  • True
  • False