Lesson 4.2.2.6
4.2.2.6 Feminine Gospels by Carol Ann Duffy Quiz: AQA English Literature, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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In what year was Carol Ann Duffy's Feminine Gospels published?
- 1985
- 1962
- 2002
- 1948
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Which honorary literary role did Carol Ann Duffy hold from 2009?
- Bards Chair
- Poet Laureate
- Professor of Poetry
- Orator Royal
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What is the primary thematic focus of Carol Ann Duffy's collection Feminine Gospels?
- Female experience
- Industrial decline
- Military history
- Eco-criticism
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Which traditional narrative sources are reworked throughout Carol Ann Duffy's Feminine Gospels?
- Myths and scriptures
- Gothic horror stories
- Chivalric romances
- Sagas and epics
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What does the word gospel traditionally translate to in religious contexts?
- Sacred song
- Divine truth
- Holy warning
- Good news
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Which concept describes a poet's retelling of a traditional story from a new perspective?
- Blank verse
- Epic catalogue
- Revisionism
- Pastoral idealisation
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Which contemporary movement shapes Duffy's themes of gender and voice?
- Feminism
- Monarchism
- Mercantilism
- Imperialism
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In which decade was Carol Ann Duffy's poetry collection Feminine Gospels published?
- 2000s
- 1990s
- 1980s
- 2010s
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Which literary device is most evident in Duffy's use of direct, conversational speech?
- Colloquial voice
- Caesura
- Iambic pentameter
- Epic simile
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Which feminist critical concept explores the connection between private female experience and public structures in Duffy's poetry?
- Gynocriticism
- Radical essentialism
- Internalised patriarchy
- The personal as political
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What primary effect does Carol Ann Duffy achieve by adapting classical and religious tales?
- To simplify plots
- To challenge authority
- To avoid originality
- To praise tradition
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Which term describes a poem's use of a female speaker's perspective?
- Refrain
- Epilogue
- Persona
- Prologue
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Which poetic form features a single persona speaking to an implied, silent audience?
- Petrarchan sonnet
- Free verse lyric
- Choral ode
- Dramatic monologue
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Which central social issue connects most poems across Carol Ann Duffy's Feminine Gospels?
- Class struggle
- Racial segregation
- Religious sectarianism
- Gender equality
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Which term describes a poem's use of irony to undercut a received idea?
- Consolation
- Lament
- Elegy
- Subversion
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Under which AQA A Level module topic option is Feminine Gospels studied?
- Victorian literature
- Tragedy
- Modern times
- Romanticism
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Which analytical approach examines how language constructs and maintains social power relations?
- Formalist literary criticism
- Critical discourse analysis
- Biographical criticism
- Structural linguistics
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In literature studies, gender analysis primarily explores power relations and the construction of what?
- Syntax
- Identity
- Metre
- Genre
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Which literary term describes a poem that reinterprets a myth for a modern audience?
- Monody
- Panegyric
- Lampoon
- Retelling
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Which concept describes the relation between a text and the social conditions that produced it?
- Historicism
- Deconstruction
- Semiotics
- Structuralism
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