1. How to Approach Section B Part 2 (Unseen Poetry)
You have 45 minutes for this question.
This is worth 12.5% of your final grade.
You will answer ONE question comparing two unseen contemporary poems that are linked by a theme (AO1).
You need to compare the poets’ portrayals of the theme through their use of language, form and structure (AO2).
You should write at least 2 PETERETER Links and a conclusion.
Year 10 Term 4: Unseen Poetry
Assessment Objectives
AO1: Read, understand and respond to texts. Students should be able to:
maintain a critical style and develop an informed personal response
use textual references, including quotations, to support and illustrate interpretations.
AO2: Analyse the language, form and structure used by a writer to create meanings and effects, using relevant subject terminology where appropriate.
Poetry terms
Alliteration: The repetition of identical consonant sounds close together.
Anaphora: Repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines.
Assonance: The rhyming or repetition of vowel sounds.
Ballad: A narrative poem composed of quatrains.
Blank verse: Verse without rhyme, especially unrhymed iambic pentameter.
Caesura: A short but definite pause used for effect within a line of poetry.
Couplet: Pairs of rhyming lines.
Dialect: Language particular to a region or social group.
Dramatic monologue: A type of poem in which a speaker addresses an internal listener or the reader.
End-stopped line: A line ending in a full pause, usually a full stop or semicolon.
Enjambment: A line having no end punctuation but running over to the next line.
Hyperbole: Hyperbole is exaggeration for effect.
Iambic pentameter: Iamb (iambic)- an unstressed/stressed foot. The most natural and common kind of meter in English. ‘But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?
Imagery: Images are references that trigger sensory memories or awareness.
Internal rhyme: An exact rhyme (rather than assonance) within a line of poetry: "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary."
Metaphor: A comparison between two unlike things, describing one thing as if it were something else.
Meter: The number of feet within a line of traditional verse.
Onomatopoeia: A word imitating the sound it describes.
Personification: Giving human characteristics to non-human things.
Petrarchan sonnet: A sonnet (14 lines of rhyming iambic pentameter) that divides into an octave (8) and sestet (6).
Refrain: Repeated word or series of words in response or counterpoint to the main verse, as in a ballad.
Rhyme: The repetition of identical concluding syllables in different words, most often at the ends of lines. Example: June--moon.
Shakespearean sonnet: A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.
Simile: A direct comparison between two dissimilar things; uses "like" or "as" to state the terms of the comparison.
Sonnet: A closed form consisting of fourteen lines of rhyming iambic pentameter.
Stanza: A group of poetic lines.