FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MID-TERM

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FREE LITERATURE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT MID-TERM

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Question 1: 1. What is the title of this poem?

Answer:

Mid-Term Break

Question 2: 24. What writing feature is evident in the phrase 'poppy bruise'?

Answer:

Metaphor

Question 3: 18. What did the people in the house say to Heaney?

Answer:

Sorry for your trouble

Question 4: 3. Where was the poet while he was waiting for a lift home?

Answer:

College sick bay

Question 5: 10. What is the name given to a dead body?

Answer:

A corpse

Question 6: 4. What was his father doing in the porch?

Answer:

Crying

Question 7: 27. What mood is created by using lots of slender vowels?

Answer:

Excitement or action or bitterness

Question 8: 5. What was his mother doing?

Answer:

Coughing out 'angry tearless sighs'

Question 9: 8. What had happened to his brother?

Answer:

Killed by impact with a car bumper Question 10: 16. What feature is associated with repeated initial letters like 'classes' and 'close'?

Answer:

Alliteration

Question 11: 32. What is the term for exaggeration?

Answer:

Hyperbole - an example is 'the playground was three miles long'

Question 12: 9. What was in the room with his brother?

Answer:

Snowdrops and candles

Question 13: 20. The repetition of 's' sound in 'angry tearless sighs' is an example of what?

Answer:

Sibilance

Question 14: At two o'clock our neighbours

Answer:

drove me home.

Question 15: And Big Jim Evans

Answer:

saying it was a hard blow.

Question 16: 12. What do you call a comparison using 'like' or 'as'?

Answer:

Simile

Question 17: 23. What writing feature has a repeated vowel?

Answer:

Assonance

Question 18: 29. What are the slender vowels?

Answer:

E, I

Question 19: A four foot box,

Answer:

a foot for every year.

Question 20: I sat all morning

Answer:

in the college sick bay

Question 21: 30. What does the word 'Break,' in the title, refer to?

Answer:

A break from school, the broken-hearted parents, the young boy's death from a broken skull, the car that failed to brake in time.

Question 22: 11. What is the coffin compared to?

Answer:

A box

Question 23: 7. When did the ambulance arrive?

Answer:

10 O'Clock

Question 24: 26. What mood is established when lots of broad vowels are used?

Answer:

Serious or sad or sincere or reflective

Question 25: He had always taken

Answer:

funerals in his stride--

Question 26: 2. Who wrote this poem?

Answer:

Seamus Heaney

Question 27: 19. The word 'whispers' is an example of what?

Answer:

Onomatopoeia Question 28: 25. When two or more words have the same beginning letter, it is known as what?

Answer:

Alliteration