{"id":333,"date":"2014-10-07T12:59:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T11:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/?p=333"},"modified":"2016-01-11T16:42:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:42:34","slug":"sample-questions-the-ferrymans-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/2014\/10\/07\/sample-questions-the-ferrymans-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample Questions The Ferryman’s Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1. The main themes of the poem are introduced in the title and first six lines
\nIdentify one main theme and show how poetic technique is used to introduce this theme. (3)<\/p>\n

2. By referring closely to lines 6\u201420, analyse the use of poetic technique to achieve a change of mood from alienation and uncertainty to one of confidence. (4)<\/p>\n

3. Evaluate the effectiveness of the second stanza as a conclusion to the poem. (3)<\/p>\n

4. In this poem, Paterson uses an apparently ordinary experience to explore a deeper truth about humanity. By referring to this and another poem or poems by Don Paterson you have studied discuss how he uses poetry to explore the deeper truths behind ordinary experience. (10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. The main themes of the poem are introduced in the title and first six lines Identify one main theme and show how poetic technique is used to introduce this theme. (3) 2. By referring closely to lines 6\u201420, analyse the use of poetic technique to achieve a change of mood from alienation and uncertainty … Continue reading Sample Questions The Ferryman’s Arms<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[3440,136],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher","tag-don-paterson","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/HomeoftheBrave\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}