Which assessment objective focuses on making connections and comparative analysis between poems?

• A. AO1
• B. AO2
• C. AO3
• D. AO4

Answer: (D)

The idea being tested is how you link ideas across poems and compare how different poems handle similar themes, images, and techniques. This is what AO4 asks you to do: you look at more than one poem, draw connections, point out contrasts, and build a coherent argument that synthesizes evidence from multiple texts. That cross-poem comparison and contextual weaving is what makes this objective the best fit for a task about making connections between poems. The other objectives focus on different aims—responding to a single poem, analyzing language, form and structure within a poem, or comparing texts in a more limited sense—so they don’t target the broader cross-poem analysis required here.