The World's Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Quiz about language/form/structure and other general knowledge about the first 15 of the 30 poems in the collection. There are 30 questions so goodluck :) Enjooooy! ps there are revision hints next to some of the questions!

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The FOREGROUNDED SPEAKER of all poems is always....
a woman
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LittleRedCap-:is STRUCTURED in a....
sestet
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Mrs Midas contains images that accentuate the beauty of gold. This is undercutting with.........mainly........! FILL IN THE BLANKS
humour...irony
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from Mrs Tiresias: Mr T is afraid of being considered a lesbian. This action suggests......
misogyny
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fMT:Written in FREE VERSE the language at the beginning was......, reinforcing the everday register but the final verse gives way to........
colloquial......lyricism
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Mrs Aesop: The line "about a little **** that wouldn't crow" is a METHAPHOR for...
impotency
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The poem Mrs Darwin takes on the forms of....
a joke, a diary entry, insult poem
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Mrs Sisyphus: the first verse is so heavily accented, close to doggerel. What is doggerel?
a verse that is sentimental and has a forced rhythm used to create a comic effect
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The lumpy rhythm in Mrs Sisyphus is a structural metaphor for...
pushing the stone up the hill
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LRC- example of a CAESURA can be seen in line 36. What is a caesura? <<HINT-identify the name behind the definition of the other options-they are all applicable to other poems in TWW>>
a pause during a line of poetry
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MF: "Terracotta tuscan tiles" is an example of........speeding up pace and tension whilst keeping materialism at the forefront of priorities.
alliteration
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Delilah is a MYSOGYNISTIC SYMBOL of the FEMME FATALE because she....
cut off his hair
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D:'I nibbled at the purse of his ear' is an .... to delilah's payment in the biblical tale and here a ......for her revenge.
allusion....metaphor
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Anne Hathaway adopts the form of........
a shakespearean sonnet
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Queen Kong OBJECTIFIES her "little man" treating him like a doll, this is a METAPHOR for.....
they way in which women are treated by men in a patriachal world
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easy one to finish.....Circe is a SATIRICAL poem.. what is SATIRE?
a type of literature in which folly , evil or topical issues are held up to scorn through ridicule, irony or exaggeration.
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What is another name for a "run on line"? <<HIINT-learn the meanings of the other definitions here too, they all come up throughout the collection>>
enjambment
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What is REVISIONISM? <<HINT-look over notes and identify poems that deal with revisionism and those that deal with intertextuality-the opposite! (the explicit or implicit referencing of other texts within a work of literature. Designed to put the work wi
in literature the rewriting of a well known text in which a character and/or plot is changed to challenge the view presented in the original.
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LRC:What is "a living bird-white dove-" a METAPHOR for?
her poetic voice
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Thetis, in her original form, is a...
sea nymph
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What IMAGE dominates the verse in which thetis is an albatross?
Christian suffering
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Thetis is written in.......
eight sestets, the movement carefully controlled free verse
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Have you enjoyed this quiz?
yes
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LittleRedCap-:is STRUCTURED in a....

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sestet

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Mrs Midas contains images that accentuate the beauty of gold. This is undercutting with.........mainly........! FILL IN THE BLANKS

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Card 4

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from Mrs Tiresias: Mr T is afraid of being considered a lesbian. This action suggests......

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fMT:Written in FREE VERSE the language at the beginning was......, reinforcing the everday register but the final verse gives way to........

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Comments

Chloe Parsons

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I realise i've made about three million spelling mistakes but ohh well

Charlotte Morgan

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wooo 80%, this is an amazing quiz , thanks a bunch!! :)

Barbie

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Well I need to do some more reviion :s Brilliant quiz though! x

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