Edwin Morgan: Scottish Set Texts

Question 1

What is round the guitar's neck?

Accepted Answer

Mistletoe

Question 2

What is an 'instamatic' poem?

Accepted Answer

One like a photograph.

Question 3

How are the blind man's hands described?

Accepted Answer

Like wet leaves.

Question 4

What is the poetic form of MOST of the poems?

Accepted Answer

Free verse.

Question 5

Where did Edwin Morgan spend most of his life?

Accepted Answer

Glasgow.

Question 6

Which tartan is the chihuahua's coat made of?

Accepted Answer

Royal Stewart

Question 7

What is the correct spelling?

Accepted Answer

Onomatopoeia

Question 8

What are the baby's features compared to?

Accepted Answer

Favours in a cake

Question 9

In the background, who 'keep their eyes on the road'?

Accepted Answer

Two drivers.

Question 10

What does the kettle do on the hob?

Accepted Answer

Whimpers

Question 11

On which street does the robbery take place?

Accepted Answer

Sauchiehall Street

Question 12

What is the air 'too poor' to do?

Accepted Answer

To rob

Question 13

In what way have the people in Trio 'not vanished' at the end of the poem?

Accepted Answer

The narrator still remembers them.

Question 14

In 'Glasgow Sonnet i', what does 'trash' NOT rhyme with?

Accepted Answer

Cash

Question 15

What is synecdoche?

Accepted Answer

Part of something representing the whole thing.

Question 16

What was the young man carrying?

Accepted Answer

A guitar

Question 17

Which floor is the 'chipped sill' on?

Accepted Answer

Fifth

Question 18

How is the hand-drier in the toilets described?

Accepted Answer

A contraption.

Question 19

What are the three things being carried in Trio?

Accepted Answer

Guitar, baby, chihuahua.

Question 20

What do Trio and Glasgow 5 March have in common?

Accepted Answer

They are both set in Glasgow.

Question 21

Why does the man 'lie late'?

Accepted Answer

He has lost his job

Question 22

What type of coat is the woman wearing?

Accepted Answer

Wet-look

Question 23

What kind of blood is spurting from the woman's leg?

Accepted Answer

Arterial

Question 24

How many lines does a sonnet have?

Accepted Answer

14

Question 25

What is a chihuahua?

Accepted Answer

A dog

Question 26

How do the robbers 'loot what they can'?

Accepted Answer

Smartly.

Question 27

How is the wind in 'Glasgow Sonnet i' described?

Accepted Answer

Mean

Question 28

Where does the blind man go after the snackbar?

Accepted Answer

On the bus.

Question 29

What rises on the puddles?

Accepted Answer

Hackles

Question 30

What does the narrator think about Christmas?

Accepted Answer

Love and friendship are more important than religion.

Question 31

Where are the toilets in the snackbar?

Accepted Answer

Downstairs.

Edwin Morgan: Scottish Set Texts

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Edwin Morgan: Scottish Set Texts

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