AQA GCSE POETRY EXAM

CONFLICT

L.O.By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Use an acronym to help remember exam techniques

• Comment on each CONFLICT poem in detail

• Sort the poems into themes

• Create your own exam-style questions for revision

• Write an exam-style answer

POETIC – Remember this acronym! Purpose: the meaning of the poem

Organisation: rhyme scheme, line length, lines per stanza, repetition, structure, layout, end stopped lines, number of stanzas

Emotive tone: (feelings the poem expresses) sad, wistful, angry, scathing, ironic, celebratory

Techniques: metaphor, simile, personification, repetition, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, letter sounds, enjambment, oxymoron

Individual words: any key words or phrases Contrast: opposites (there will always be contrast in a

well-written poem)

Futility