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Waltzing Matilda Poetry Analysis

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Series of questions on the famous Banjo Peterson poem covering theme, poetic devices, and other language features.

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1
What is the key theme of Waltzing Matilda?
Don't camp near billabongs.
Living a life close to nature.
Living life how you see fit.
It is wrong to break the law.
2
Waltzing Matilda has a theme, but first, what is a theme?
It is the music written for the poem.
It the words used to describe the main character in the poem.
It is the description of the swagmans actions in the poem.
It is the main idea embedded in the poem.
3
Waltzing Matilda is a bush ballad. What do you think a ballad is?
It is a story or poem set to music.
It is a story from the Australian bush.
It is an epic story that everyone remembers.
It is a story of a real incident.
4
What is the rhyme pattern of Waltzing Matilda?
ABCB
ABBA
AABB
ABCD
5
'Waltzing' means ......
...to walk into the outback and back again
...to walk in a dancing manner
..to walk randomly around the countryside
... to walk carefully through the bush
6
Irony is the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning.
False
True
7
'Matilda' refers ....
...to the swagman's shoes.
...to the swagman's waterbottle.
..to the place where the swagman camped.
..to the swagman's swag
8
Waltzing Matilda uses imagery. What is imagery?
Descriptive language that is dramatic.
Descriptive language that uses verbs as action words.
Descriptive words that are mostly adjectives.
Descriptive language that appeals the senses.
9
Waltzing Matilda was written in what year?
1888
1895
1914
1901
10
'Shade of a coolibah tree' is a good example of imagery.
True
False