Hughes Review Question Preview (ID: 62580)

a) Love and relationships

b) The beauty of nature

c) The destructive power of nature

d) The importance of friendship

a) The use of a list without connectives

b) Excessive pride or self-confidence

c) Impossible to subdue or conquer

d) A feeling of great distress of disturbance

a) It shows the indomitable force of the wind

b) It is written in a cycle reflecting the ideas in the poem

c) It rhymes to highlight the feelings of the poetic persona

d) It shows the naturalistic style of the poem

a) To reflect the monotony of winter for many animals in the natural world.

b) To imply that the snowdrop has adapted for survival, despite the harsh challenges of nature.

c) To suggest that times of hardship in both the natural and human world, can feel like living an uncertain, unfulfilling 'half-

d) To link the weasel and crow to the human world and show how challenging it can be.

a) The metaphor of 'the globe shrunk tight'.

b) The image of the mouse followed by an end stopped line.

c) The simile 'brutal as the stars of this month.'

d) The image of the snowdrop and the caesura after 'deaths' followed by an extended line length.

a) Poems that are nostalgic, personal and often capture childhood memories from living in rural Yorkshire towns.

b) Poems that explore conflict, brutality and hubris.

c) Poems that are influenced by mythology and folk-lore; Hughes was fascinated by ancient cultures.

d) Poems that were originally intended for children in Yorkshire.

a) Personification

b) Plosive alliteration

c) Extended metaphor

d) Asyndeton

a) The sublime is a way of describing the slime that gathers on Subway sandwiches if they are not eaten within a few hours of be

b) The sublime is where a poet structures their poem without end stops on some lines, leading lines to run on into the next line

c) The sublime is a powerful emotional response to an encounter with the natural world. It is often said to be a mixture of fear

d) The sublime is a powerful emotional response to eating delicious food. It is often said to be a mixture of fear and awe, and

a) Polysyndeton - it creates the idea of the harvest moon impacting all living creatures and the effect being eternal

b) Metaphor - it creates the idea that the harvest moon makes large powerful creatures feel small and insignificant because the

c) Anaphora - it creates a chant or prayer-like rhythm which builds a sense of worship and awe in the poem, as if the human and

d) Personification - it creates the idea that sometimes encounters with rare events in the natural world can feel like encounter

a) It suggests that they have a spiritual presence stemming from ancient natural world and have a God-like wisdom and experience

b) It creates a frightening image of the horses, like ancient predators, similar to Megalodons in the ocean.

c) It suggests that they are huge, hence the 'mega' but also lethargic and oppressed like the animals in The Jaguar.

d) It creates a sense of joy and hope.