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Exam Prep: Songs of Ourselves

This document provides sample past exam questions for the Songs of Ourselves poetry anthology part 3. It includes 8 sample essay questions that ask students to analyze various poems in the collection by exploring themes, poetic devices, characterization, language use, and contrasts/oppositions. The document concludes with revision recommendations advising students to practice answering as many question types as possible and to be prepared to analyze any poem from the collection rather than focusing on favorites.

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Exam Prep: Songs of Ourselves

This document provides sample past exam questions for the Songs of Ourselves poetry anthology part 3. It includes 8 sample essay questions that ask students to analyze various poems in the collection by exploring themes, poetic devices, characterization, language use, and contrasts/oppositions. The document concludes with revision recommendations advising students to practice answering as many question types as possible and to be prepared to analyze any poem from the collection rather than focusing on favorites.

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Some Past Exam Questions: Songs of Ourselves part 3

Essay Checklist
1. Explore the significance of the ways in which Liz
Lochhead presents the Storyteller and Storytelling in her Ensure you write about each of the following:
poem.
➢ Meaning (what is it about and how do
you know? Evidence!)
➢ Personal response (what does the
2. Consider the ways in which Charles Lamb reminisces and language etc. make you think/ feel?)
conveys regret in The Old Familiar Faces. ➢ Poetic devices such as alliteration,
repetition, rhyme, rhythm
➢ Imagery such as metaphors, similes,
personification, symbolism.
3. Consider the ways in which one or two of the following ➢ Form (shape of the stanzas) and
poems present ideas about social injustice and lack of structure (line length, enjambment,
liberty: Song to the Men of England, Monologue, Carpet caesura)
weavers, Morocco.
You must quote and analyse these in depth in
order to get a top grade.
4. Consider the ways in which one or two of the following poems present ideas about work: Song to the Men of
England, Carpet weavers, Morocco, Monologue, Storyteller.

5. Comment on the way character is created in one or two of the following poems: Monologue.

6. Explore the ways in which the poet has used language and other poetic devices to present ideas in ……..
(apply this question to any of the poems)

7. Which poem from the collection do you find most moving and thought-provoking? Write about the poet's
ideas and the ways in which he or she has presented them to successfully affect your emotions and
thoughts.

8. Contrasts and oppositions are used as a means of conveying ideas in several poems in the collection.
Explore the ways in which contrasts in the language and imagery in one or two of the following poems are
used: Song to the Men of England, Carpet weavers, Morocco

Revision recommendations:

➢ Know how you would answer as many of these questions as possible, either by writing a timed
essay or by writing a plan
➢ Don’t choose favourite poems and leave others out- you have no idea what the questions will
be!

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