## Answers

B5 Literature: Genre

Step 1 Words

1 fictional novel | f This is a long story. It is imaginary. It describes fictional characters and events.
2 poem | a This is a type of literature that uses aesthetic qualities and the sound of words to give meaning and emotion. It is expressive.
3 non fiction | d This is about real life. It includes newspapers, journals, diaries and textbooks. This literature usually passes on information.
4 biography | e This is a book written by the author about the life of another person.
5 autobiography | b This is a book written by the author about him or herself.
6 drama | c This is designed to be performed in some way. It might be a play for radio, television, theatre, or film.

Step 3 Reading

1. To Asia
2. He says that anything is possible, ‘.. I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it’ ‘whistles sing bewitchments: railways are irresistible bazaars, snaking along perfectly level no matter what the landscape, improving your mood with speed, and never upsetting your drink’.
3. Sought trains and found passengers.
4. Old, dressed in clothes that are too big from him and going to Istanbul.
5. The suburbs overlap the farms.
6. Students own answers but then it turns out to be sandwiches ‘A knife, a length of French bread, a tube of mustard and discs of bright red salami were spread before him. Lost in thought he slowly chewed his sandwich’.

The difference between fiction and travel writing according to the author:
'Recording what the eye sees and discovering what the imagination knows. Fiction is pure joy’.

1. A springtime scene in England.
2. A bird that sings over and over again.
   Lest you should think he never could recapture
   The first fine careless rapture!
3. The verse is in two sections:
   1. The first, shorter stanza sets the emotional tenor of the poem—the speaker longs for his home. This section rhymes ABABCCDD. The metrical pattern and the rhyme scheme give it a sort of rising and falling sense that mirrors the emotional rise and fall of the poem’s central theme: the burst of joy at thinking of home, then the resignation that home lies so far away.
   2. The second section is longer, and rhymes AABCBCDDEEFF. The more even metrical pattern and more drawn-out rhyme plan allow for a more contemplative feel; it is here that the poet settles back and thinks on the progress of the seasons that cycle outside of him. In its metrical irregularity and surprising last line, as well as its overall tone, the poem suggests the work of Emily Dickinson.

Step 4 Speaking

1. A springtime scene in England.
2. A bird that sings over and over again.
   Lest you should think he never could recapture
   The first fine careless rapture!
3. The verse is in 2 sections:
   The first, shorter stanza sets the emotional tenor of the poem—the speaker longs for his home. This section rhymes ABABCCDD. The metrical pattern and the rhyme scheme give it a sort of rising and falling sense that mirrors the emotional rise and fall of the poem’s central theme: the burst of joy at thinking of home, then the resignation that home lies so far away.
   The second section is longer, and rhymes AABCBCDDEEFF. The more even metrical pattern and more drawn-out rhyme plan allow for a more contemplative feel; it is here that the poet settles back and thinks on the progress of the seasons that cycle outside of him. In its metrical irregularity and surprising last line, as well as its overall tone, the poem suggests the work of Emily Dickinson.
   (Adapted from Spark Notes http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/browning/section5.rhtml )