END-OF-YEAR REVISION EXAM Paper 4: Response to literature:


Section A: Poetry Answer the following questions on a poem that you have studied in English this year:


The Boxer By Emma Payne


The great iron figure crouches, Scabs like flowers on his knees, And his chest is like a mountain And his legs are thick as trees.


He spits blood like a cherub


In a fountain spouting foam, Ringed around by swinging ropes And punters going home.


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Broken-knuckled, shiny-eyed, Battered, bruised, and wet


With droplets like cold rubies, And laced with bitter sweat.


He crouches in a corner In his pool of sparkling red And dreads the jeers that soon will fall 15 Like blows upon his head.


Write a paragraph in which you comment on the different features that convey meaning in the above poem. Be guided by the mark allocations in brackets. • The structure of the poem: the length of stanzas


• Rhythm and rhyme: look at the length of the lines, the internal rhyme and the end rhyme


• Explain the effectiveness of the sound devices and figures of speech that are noteworthy in the poem: • alliteration in lines 10 and 13 • assonance in lines 6 and 7 • metaphor in lines 1 and 14


• simile in lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 16 • Tone • Explain the purpose and overall impact of the poem. 10


TIME: 1½ HOUR


(2) (2)


(2) (2) (2) (6) (2) (2)


Sub-total: 20


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