Power poetry - Study guides, Revision notes & Summaries

Phillis Wheatley, a slave during the revolutionary era in the United States, was A.) A seamstress who bought her freedom from slavery B.) A domestic servant who shielded patriots C.) A published author who wrote poetry D.) An artist who painted revolutionary scenes E.) A spy who provided information on British troop movements Correct Answer-C.) A published author who wrote poetry The original 13 colonies that formed the United States were A.) Founded by religious groups B.) De...

Section A Start your answer to each 10, 20 and 30 mark question on a new page. Source A Sappho, He is as blessed as a god (Loeb 31) He seems to me equal to a god That man who sits facing you Hearing your sweet voice Close to him And your charming laughter, 5 Which for me, honestly strikes terror into the heart of my breast When I see you, Even for a moment, I can no longer speak. My tongue breaks and, immediately A delicate fire runs beneath my skin, I see nothing with my eyes but...

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...

Storm on The Island - Quotes - correct answer "Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear" "We just sit tight while wind dives and strafes invisibly. Space is a salvo." (Personification, metaphor, sibilance) "Like a tame cat turned savage" (simile) "Exploding comfortably" (oxymoron) "When it blows full blast:" (enjambment then caesura) "We are prepared" (confident tone and inclusive pronoun) "Leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale so that you can l...

PPT providing key bits of context and a method for analysing two of the poems from AQA's Power and Conflict poetry anthology.

AQA-7712-2B-ENGLISH LITERATURE A FINAL MARK SCHEME PAPER 2B-Texts in shared contexts: Modern times: Literature from 1945 to the present day -Jun24 Question 01 Feminine Gospels – Carol Ann Duffy Examine the view that this collection is dominated by conflict between women and men. You must write about at least two poems in your answer. [25 marks] Possible content: Please refer to pages 4 to 7. AO5 Explore literary texts informed by different interpretations Students might cons...

GED Test 740 Questions with Verified Answers "WOW! Mom rides a kayak at noon." How are the underlined words alike? - CORRECT ANSWER They are palindromes Who was the author of Common Sense: Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson? - CORRECT ANSWER Thomas Paine What is NOT a real shark: hammerhead, shovelhead, or tigerhead? - CORRECT ANSWER tigerhead What is the force that slows down an object or stops its motion? - CORRECT ANSWER friction Which is greater than 90 degrees: an acute angle...

Thinking about Shakespeare's Sister: Virginia Woolf - ANSWER-Asks and explores the basic question of "why no woman wrote a word of that extraordinary literature when every other man, it seemed, was capable of song or sonnet The Wife Emily Dickinson - ANSWER--The image of how women do everything for men A woman must fulfill her husband's and her society's expectations of how to behave, sacrificing opportunities and her own voice -By linking the subject's brilliance to the images of pear...

WGU C100 Humanities Classical Period Acronym (BRTH PRD) - ANSWER BRTH- Balance, Reason, Truth, Humanism PRD- Polytheism, Republic, Democracy Renaissance Period Acronym (RUSH RoCS - Michealangelos Rock sculpture) - ANSWER RUSH- Reformation, University System, Scientific Expansion, Humanism RoCS- Rebirth of Classicism & Self Fashioning Neoclassical & Enlightenment Period Acronym (CORDES- classical cords) - ANSWER CORDESClassicism, Order, Rationalism, Deism, Empiricism, Skepticism Roman...

CSTU 101 CH. 3 Ancient Greece Popular Greek inventions - correct answer The crane and dice. Classical Ideal: Humanism - correct answer Confidence in human power and ingenuity. Classical Ideal: Fatalism - correct answer Humans' pride and ambition might bring self destruction. Minoan Culture - correct answer Figure of the Bull central in both religious practice and cultural creation. Development of pottery. Labyrinth and Minotaur. Mycenaean Culture - correct answer Warrior Civiliz...