What does the poet feel about the bush in "Clancy"?

He holds a romantic image of it

What is alliteration?

repetiton of consonant sounds at the start of words

The purpose of a poem is:

the reason why the poet wrote the poem

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Poetry Revision

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A quiz to revise Australian poetry and analysis

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1
"dying of the venoms that we make even while you die of us" is" an example of:
oxymoron
hyperbole
irony
onomatopoeia
2
A bush ballad is a poem which:
cannot be recognised by its layout
is a stream of consciousness
follows the structure of a sonnet
tells a story
3
SLIMS is an elaboration on which part of SPECS?
craftsmanship
emotion
Subject matter
Poet's purpose
4
The C in SPECS is for:
cohesion
craftsmanship
creativity
cats
5
"The outlaw stole like a hunted fox" is:
hyperbole
a metaphor
a simile
personification
6
Poet A. B. "Banjo" Paterson's real name is:
Andrew Barton Paterson
Alan Baker Paterson
Andrew Belefonte Paterson
Aaron Bartholomew Paterson
7
What structure do we use to analyse a poem?
SPECS and SLIMS
SPOTS and STRIPES
SLIMY and SLINKY
SPOT and SMURF
8
What does the poet feel about the bush in "Clancy"?
He thinks people in the bush are yobbos
He thinks people in the bush are smarter than him
He holds a romantic image of it
He is fearful of it
9
"the fear as old as Cain" is alluding to:
The Australian Constitution
Pride & Prejudice
a dreamtime story
The Bible
10
the first S in SPECS stands for:
summary
short answer
subject matter
soliloquy
11
The E in SPECS is for:
effort
energy
evaluation
emotion
12
"All gone, all gone, And you remain alone". What is the emotion in this line?
fear
sadness
anger
joy
13
What is alliteration?
repetition of vowel sounds at the end of words
repetiton of consonant sounds at the start of words
repetiton of vowel sounds within words
repetition of words
14
"I can hear the fiendish rattle of the tramways and the ‘buses" is:
kinaesthetic imagery
olfactory imagery
auditory imagery
visual imagery
15
"they are scarfed with light" is:
assonance
a simile
a metaphor
alliteration
16
In "Clancy of the Overflow", Clancy is a:
office worker
drover
bushranger
shearer
17
"My Country" is a poem written by:
Kath Walker
Dorothea Mackellar
Ania Walwicz
Judith Wright
18
The purpose of a poem is:
the subject matter of the poem
usually very hard to understand
the reason why the poet wrote the poem
the emotion of the poem
19
"The sapphire-misted mountains, The hot gold hush of noon" is an example of:
assonance
simile
allusion
imagery
20
In "Aboriginal Australia", what is the meaning of "kith and kind"?
foreigners
family
enemies
friends

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