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Year 9 Poetry Quiz
Year 9 Poetry Quiz
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A quiz on poetry devices, performance techniques and the history of spoken word
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In 15 year old, Noah St. John's poem 'Last 2 Miles', the car was a metaphor for
Slam Poetry
His mothers' relationship
His childhood
Mechanical Issues
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Slam poetry is...?
A form of Spoken Word poetry
Always rhymes
Never uses humour
A form of Haiku
3
In the poem 'OCD', the line 'It's killing me that she can run away and I just can't', is
An example of humour
A hyperbole
A metaphor
A rhyme
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In 'Complainers',life is described as a 'gym membership with a complicated cancellation policy'
This is a similie
This is a conceit
This is an oxymoron
This is a metaphor
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An oxymoron is...?
A type of simile
A figure of speech in which a metaphor is used.
Figure of speech where contradictory things are connected.
A device describing domesticated cattle
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Carol Duffy's poem 'Valentine' was
A celebration of gifts exchanged on February 14
A critical analysis of what love actually means
A poem about greeting cards
A poem about how onions make your eyes water
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A hyperbole is....?
A lie
An exaggeration
A difficult word to pronounce
A conceit
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A conceit is ...?
An extended Metaphor
A mixed Metaphor
A person who displays arrogance
A figure of speech
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In Sylvia Plath's poem, the line 'Your mouth opens clean as a cat’s' is....
A metaphor
A simile
An oxymoron
A conceit
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Slam poetry....?
All of the above
Is one form of spoken word poetry
Emerged in the 1980s in America
Can be extremely shouty and intense
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Free verse....
Has a strict rhyming structure
Has no formal, poetic structure
Is another word for an open competition
Is poetry given at no cost
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Slam poetry...?
Is extremely ancient
Is a paper weight for keeping pages of poetry pinned down
Involves performance, gestures and audience interaction
Only performed by Americans
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Slam and spoken word may be performed in pairs or groups by
Speaking in unison and alternating words
Slam poetry cannot be performed in pairs
By co-ordinating dance steps
By singing together
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Poetry is an ancient form of human expression and be traced back to
The big bang.
When the industrial revolution took place
When the internet started up
When humans first began to speak
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Spoken Word is.....
Is about speaking in the past tense
Developed in America in the 1980s
Was invented by teenagers
Very ancient and cross-cultural
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Alice Eather's poem is
An articulation of connection to Country
A form of protest poetry
An act of environmental activism
An example of bi-lingual poetry
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Black-out poetry may also be called
Poetry by Omission
Poetry in a Power Outage
Poetry by Allusion
Poetry in Darkness
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Free verse is important because
Allows poets to follow patterns of speech
It gives the poet total freedom
It rebels against the past, restrictive traditions
All of the above
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Spoken word is a broader term for all poetry that is live and can involve
Words and text
Story-telling
Music
All of the Above
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An ellipsis in written poetry is....
A pause
A literary device in which words are omitted
(...)
All of the above
