Poetry Test 2

"Where the sunbaked earth was gasping like a creature in its pain" - is an example of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Epithet

Say, ‘hey!’

“Aus tra li a!’

‘Look at me!’

- is an example of what figure of speech?

• Personification

• Simile

• Allusion

• Metaphor

"So you’re back from up the country, Mister Townsman, where you went" - is the first line of which poem?

• Up the Country

• In Defence of the Bush

• We Are Going

• We're All Australians Now

"There on the beach – on that desolate beach" - is the first line of which poem?

• Up the Country

• In Flanders Fields

• We'e All Australians Now

• Ninety Years Ago

Australia takes her pen in hand

To write a line to you,

To let you fellows understand

How proud we are of you.

From shearing shed and cattle run,

From Broome to Hobson’s Bay,

Each native-born Australian son

Stands straighter up today.

What is the rhyme scheme?

• AABBCCDD

• ABCDABCD

• ABABCDCD

• ACABADBC

"What a mighty stillness broods" - is an example of what figure of speech?

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

• Allusion

Who wrote Ninety Years Ago?

• Banjo Paterson

• Charles Harpur

• James McAuley

• Rupert McCall

"Quiro's vision" - is an example of what figure of speech?

• Allusion

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Epithet

"Sunburnt country" - is an example of what figure of speech?

• Epithet

• Metaphor

• Simile

• Personification

Who wrote the original My Country?

• Oscar Krahnvohl

• Dorothea Mackeller

• Henry Lawson

• Banjo Paterson