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Grade 6 Poetry Quiz
Grade 6 Poetry Quiz
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1
Poems aren't arranged into paragraphs, but into ___________________. Fill in the gap!
Sentences
Stanzas
Blocks
Rhymes
2
When analysing a poem, we don't call the voice 'the narrator'. What do we call this instead?
'The author'
'The speaker'
'The person'
'The poet'
3
In 'Carpet-Weaves, Morocco', which image captures the various heights of the child labourers?
'melodious chime'
'their dresses bright'
'the school of days'
'flickering knots like television'
4
In 'My Parents', the children are compared to animals on two occasions. What animals are they compared to?
'Spiders' and 'cats'
'Cats' and 'dogs'
'Tigers' and 'dogs'
'Dogs' and 'rats'
5
'From their fingers the colours of all-that-will-be fly'. What does this line emphasise about the children?
The speed at which they work
That they have fingers
Their boundless creativity
Their frustration at their lives
6
What does the following simile emphasise: 'they watch their flickering knots like television'.
That the children are easily distracted
That they children are bored by their work
That the children spend a lot of time on screens
That the children are absorbed in their work
7
In 'My Parents', the poet uses the harsh alliteration of 'climbed cliffs' and 'country streams' to reflect . . .
The harshness of the landscape
The harshness of the 'rough' children's behaviour
The harshness of the parents
The harshness of the speaker
8
In 'Nettles', 'bed' (as in plant bed) is made to seem an unsuitable word for nettles. What does he think is better?
'black hearts'
'red weaponry'
'blue daggers'
'green spears'
9
What did we say 'Carpet-Weavers, Morocco' was arranged into?
Sestets
Tercets
Quatrains
Couplets
10
What poetic technique is this the definition of: 'when there is
no
clear rhythm or rhyming pattern in a poem'.
Free verse
Stanzas
Imagery
Nursery rhyme
11
When a poem describes a beautiful scene in nature, this is called a p________________________ poem. Fill in the gap!
pastoral
picture
presentational
personal
12
'For never was there a story of more
woe
/ Than this of Juliet and her
Romeo
'. What is this an example of?
An alternate rhyme scheme
Symbolism
Free verse
A rhyming couplet
13
The 'bees buzzed busily' is an example what poetic device?
A semantic field
Rhythm
Alliteration
Symbolism
14
To avoid "'quote', this quote shows', what should do when using evidence from the poem?
Embed quotations into your answer
Quote long sections of the poem
Quote only single words
Not use quotations
15
In the 'Point' of a PEE paragraph, what should you
never
mention?
The poet's name
Literary devices, e.g. similes, metaphors
What you are going to argue in the paragraph
The title of the poem
16
Which phrase from 'Nettles' means 'group of soldiers with the intention to harm'?
'tall recruits'
'white blisters beaded'
'hook and honed the blade'
'that regiment of spite'
17
The poem ends with the speaker stating 'I longed to forgive them but they never smiled'. Why do the boys 'never' smile'?
They fear the speaker
The tension of class difference
They are upset with their lives
They hate education
18
Which phrase from 'Nettles' shows the father ceremonially destroying the nettles?
'my son would feel sharp wounds again'
'I lit / a funeral pyre'
'watery grin'
'sun and rain'
