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1
Complete the quote from
Snowdrop
"Now is the ________ shrunk _____."
Mouse / fight
flower / brass
globe/tight
globe / light
2
Which word is being defined?
A gold coin formerly used in Spain and some of its territories.
Reap
Doubloon
Vigil
Bassoon
3
Line 16:
“But gripped, gripped and is now a cenotaph.” What is a
cenotaph
?
A monument to the dead.
A jawbone of a whale or shark.
A prehistoric stone that's huge in size.
A type of wave that breaks by the shoreline.
4
Hyperbole is a...
technique to create olfactory imagery.
technique that uses repetition to emphasize something specific.
technique to create auditory imagery.
technique with which a writer exaggerates for the sake of emphasis.
5
Which poem mentions the word 'luminous'?
The Jaguar and Wind
The Jaguar
Hawk Roosting
Wind
6
In Hawk Roosting - "I am going to keep things like this" .............. What does this mean?
I want to move to another tree
I will not allow anything to change
I collect bones
I will not give any other animals any food
7
Which poem features an egotistical speaker?
The Jaguar
Hawk Roosting
Hawk Roosting and The Jaguar
Wind
8
In Relic the Jawbone is symbolic - those who eat, the jawbone warns, will always be eaten themselves one day.
This is an idiom.
This is ironic.
This is humorous.
This is juxtaposition.
9
What does
indolence
mean?
the use of clever but false arguments.
the state of being very still, almost frozen.
the state of showing no real interest or effort:
the action of allotting something.
10
Which colour is
NOT
in the poem, The Wind?
red
black
orange
green
11
Which lines from Harvest Moon feature
anaphora
?
Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,/A vast balloon,
So people can't sleep,/ So they go out where elms and oak trees keep
The harvest moon has come!/And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep
Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers/Sweat from the melting hills.
12
Which poem?
The poem describes a countryside scene: on a hill where the grass has been chewed to by sheep...
The Harvest Moon
Relic
Cat and Mouse
The Horses
13
Who is the speaker of the poem Hawk Roosting?
The Hawk
An unnamed observer
The Trees
The Prey
14
Which poem mentions a
green goblet
that rang?
Hawk Roosting
The Jaguar
None of them
Wind
15
Meter is a regular pattern....
of stressed & unstressed syllables that defines the rhythm of some poetry
of measurements.
the strict use of rhyme and alliteration.
the sound of syllables that rhyme.
16
the act of giving a human quality or characteristic to something which is not human
is called a motif.
False
True
17
Which line from
Cat and Mouse
features
onomatopoeia
?
Woods, villages, farms hummed its heat-heavy
Feet or four, how are prayers contracted!
On the sheep-cropped summit, under hot sun,
Time and a world
18
Which technique is being used?
"The fields quivering, the skyline a grimace..."
sibilance
personification
olfactory imagery
repetition
19
what does the hawk inspect from the top of the tree?
the woods
The earth
The rivers
The other animals
20
"Where my breath left tortuous statues in the iron light."
Match the analysis to the quote.
"breath left" is a simile to explain how the speaker is breathless.
"iron light" is personifying the light as strong, like iron.
“iron light” is a metaphor evoking the image of harsh grey, dawn light.
"iron light" is alliteration of the short i vowel sound.
21
In
Cat and Mouse
, the tiny quivering mouse is a symbol of the fragility of life.
False
True
22
In The Jaguar the poem features a sudden
turn
as the jaguar stands out to be alive & energetic, a
contrast
to the others
False
True
23
These lines both feature which
technique
? "Brutal as the stars of this month,/Her pale head heavy as metal."
Allegory
Simile
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
24
Sophistry
means: the use of clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving.
False
True
25
Harvest Moon is full of religious language & imagery, suggesting that
the harvest moon's arrival is more than ordinary.
False
True
26
Line 5:
“In that darkness camaraderie does not hold.” What does
camaraderie
mean?
Fellow-feeling, friendship.
Closeness, intimacy.
Enemies, villains.
Crab or lobster shells.
27
What is being defined? Poetry that doesn’t use any strict meter or rhyme scheme.
Free Form
Sonnet Form
Freestyle
Free Verse
28
complete the line: "I kill where I....................because it is all mine"
eat
die
please
want
29
Which
technique
? when two contrasting ideas, images, or concepts are placed side by side to create a striking effect.
justification
caesura
oxymoron
juxtaposition
30
In Wind, which verb relates to the technique of
zoomorphism
?
Trembling
Floundering
stampeding
Blinding
31
How long did it take to produce his foot?
The whole of creation
an hour and a half
about 6 months
three days
32
Sibilance
a technique creating hissing sounds through the repetition of "s" sounds.
True
False
33
Anthropomorphism
is being used in the line: "Hearing the stones cry out under the horizons."
False
True
34
Which technique is being used: "
By the bang of blood in the brain deaf the ear –"
anthropomorphism
assonance
alliteration
rhyme
35
Symbolism is defined as:
a literary device in which a writer uses one thing to represent something more abstract
False
True
36
Alliteration
is when there is a repeated sound, using vowels.
True
False
37
Who is the speaker in The Jaguar?
The Jaguar
The ape
The boa constrictor
An unnamed observer
38
Which word means: The ability to float in water or stay cheerful and positive.
bouyancy
sophistry
allotment
air
39
Which technique is being used in this line?
"The boa-constrictor’s coil Is a fossil."
A metaphor
Personification
Enjambment
A simile
40
"Flexing like the lens of a mad eye" uses which combination of
techniques
?
simile and a continuous verb
metaphor and a verb
hyperbole and metaphor
connotations to madness and metaphor
41
Which line from Harvest Moon DOES NOT feature
alliteration
?
Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing
Till it takes off, and sinks upward
And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.
We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers/Sweat from the melting hills.
42
A pause that occurs within a line of poetry, usually marked by some form of punctuation such as a period or comma.
caesura
punctuation
assonance
enjambment
43
Irony is a literary device or event in which how things seem to be is in fact very different from how they actually are.
True
False
44
In the Jaguar the parrots are described as?
cheap tarts
sleepy hay
still as a nursery wall
with drill eyes
45
According to Biblical legend, an angel gave or turned Eve's tears into snowdrops after the fall/banished from Eden.
False
True
46
"Evil air, a frost-making stillness," Which
adjective
is unexpected and creates a
threatening tone
?
air
Evil
Frost-making
Stillness
47
In the poem Wind, the "
wind wielded
" an "arrow."
False
True
48
A guynrope is a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent)
True
False
49
In The Jaguar, which animals "lie as still as the sun"?
The parrots
The apes
The lion and tiger
The snakes
50
Which summary describes the poem
Relic
?
Depicts a group of men playing football.
The speaker remembers finding a jawbone on the seashore.
A mouse hopes to make a break for freedom.
A violent storm.
51
The Horses
is a poem about horseback riding in winter.
False
True
52
Which
technique
means to have a line run onto another line, helping the flow of ideas and rhythm?
enjambment
sibilance
end-stopped line
quatrain
53
Which creature is described as having a "dulled wintering heart" in Snowdrop?
A Crow
A Mouse
A Weasel
A Moose
54
Sound words like
buzz
,
bang
and
pop
are visual imagery techniques.
False
True
