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Robert Frost - Context and HSC 'Discovery' Poems
Robert Frost - Context and HSC 'Discovery' Poems
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AFTER APPLE-PICKING - What kind of life has the persona led?
Exciting
Travel-filled
Negative
Laborious
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STOPPING BY WOODS - "The woods are lovely, dark and deep" is an example of ...
Juxtaposition
Irony
Positive language
Simile
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STOPPING BY WOODS - What contextual event for Frost gave him impetus to write this poem?
His sleigh breaking down in the middle of the snowy forest
The Enlightenment
Coming home from the winter markets having sold nothing
Seeing Santa
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FIRE AND ICE - What form has the discovery taken?
Instant
Planned
Spontaneous
Gradual
5
FIRE AND ICE - Most probably, "ice" is a metaphor for ...
Desire
Hate
The film 'Frozen'
Ignorance
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HOME BURIAL - What does Frost possibly say about companionship and human nature?
Marriage will be easy
Friends are the best source of support
Those (who've not seen grief) can only empathise to a point
Human nature is to forget death
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AFTER APPLE-PICKING - One of the more certain discoveries the persona begins to realise is ...
Death is all around us
The effects of a long and labor-filled life
The power of apples
How sleep is like death
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TUFT - How would you BEST describe the labourer's series of discoveries?
Spiritual and fleeting
Negative and upsetting
Positive and planned
Positive and spontaneous
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HOME BURIAL - What discovery does the husband make about his wife?
Her friends have been no support whatsoever
She has dealt rather well with her grief
She is actually a ghost
She never understood how he pragmatically continued on
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MENDING WALL - Does the persona make new discoveries in this poem?
Yes
No
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FROM THE RUBRIC - In your essays and creative tasks, you should question and reflect on ...
your own experiences
If wearing Speedos are appropriate
the assumptions made about various discoveries
how composers' choices shape our understanding of discovery
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MENDING WALL - "He is all pine and I am apple orchard" is an example of ...
Symbolism / metaphor
Simile / Hyperbole
Hyperbole / Oxymoron
Metaphor / Descriptive language
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MENDING WALL - What season do the neighbours annually meet?
Summer
Autumn
Winter
Spring
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AFTER APPLE-PICKING - Once again, Frost uses WHAT to frame his ambiguous thoughts on life?
Ladders
Nature
Personification
Apples
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AFTER APPLE-PICKING - "...there's a barrel that I didn't fill" is a metaphor that suggests ...
He wishes he had a different job
He could have picked more apples
Reflection and possible regret
His laborious life has been worth it
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STOPPING BY WOODS - The persona's discovery has been a journey of joy, suggesting that ...
Personified "woods" are better for an audience
Horses are good company
Joy and responsibility are mutually inclusive
Sleighs are the best ways to travel
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FIRE AND ICE - "To know that for destruction / Ice is also great / And would suffice" is ...
Irony
Personification
Boring
Enjambment
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HOME BURIAL - While the child has been buried, what else does Frost suggest might be 'buried'?
The graveyard
The wife's grief
The marriage
The window
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STOPPING BY WOODS - Terms like "easy wind and downy flake" suggest ...
The persona is about to die
Frost likes the woods
The persona enjoys the reflective power of his surroundings
The persona suffers from flatulence
20
HOME BURIAL - What historically contextual issues are pivotal to this poem?
Poverty
Cultural differences
Frost's family history
Feminism
21
TUFT OF FLOWERS - who does the labourer first discover a connection with?
The audience
The butterfly
Himself
The mower
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TUFT - How did the "mower" feel about the "leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared"?
Protective
Personification
Annoyed
Ambivalent
23
STOPPING BY WOODS - The "darkest evening of the year" is another way of saying ...
Clouds are covering the moon
The woods are dark
Midnight
The winter solstice
24
In which two centuries did Robert Frost live?
17th and 18th
20th and 21st
19th and 20th
18th and 19th
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Who were Frost's two main literary influences?
Bronte and Saurus
Emerson and Wordsworth
Shakespeare and Keats
The Bronte Sisters
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FROM THE RUBRIC - Discoveries can also ...
lead us to new worlds and values
change how we view ourselves and the world around us
stimulate new ideas
be provocative and confronting
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FROM THE RUBRIC - Discoveries can be ...
Sudden and unexpected
fresh and intensely meaningful
unveiling something for the first time or something new
the result of planning and deliberate action
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MENDING WALL - The persona's neighbour espouses ...
Humour and inclusivity
Tearing down walls
Neatness and teamwork
Tradition and privacy
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TUFT - Why does the labourer feel " a spirit kindred to my own" with the labourer?
They both appreciate the butterfly
Both men are from New England
Both men work with their hands
They both appreciate the beauty of nature and the "tuft"
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FIRE AND ICE - Most probably, "fire" is a metaphor for ...
Desire
First-degree burns
Hate
Love
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TUFT OF FLOWERS - "He turned first, and led my eye to look / At a tall tuft of flowers" is ...
a metaphor
Seasonal Imagery
a rhyming couplet
Personification
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HOME BURIAL - The stairs in the poem are a symbol of ...?
The distance between the couple
Upstairs and downstairs
The couple's grief
The child's grave
33
Which two words would BEST describe the style of Frost's poetry?
Brave and traditional
Reflective and recognisable
Cryptic and uncertain
Odd and confusing
34
AFTER APPLE-PICKING - The persona's thoughts could be ...
All of the above
Part dream, part reality
A metaphor for death
Entirely a dream
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MENDING WALL - How does the persona feel about his neighbour's desire for isolation?
Angry
Happy
Metaphoric
Resigned
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FIRE AND ICE - The title itself is an example of ...
Irony
Juxtaposition
Stupidity
Nature imagery
