To learn how to speak- Jeremy Cronin

To learn how to speak- Jeremy Cronin

11th - 12th Grade

11 Qs

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To learn how to speak- Jeremy Cronin

To learn how to speak- Jeremy Cronin

Assessment

Quiz

English

11th - 12th Grade

Easy

Created by

N_ Fillis

Used 31+ times

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11 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Who is the poet of this poem?

Jeremy Cronin

Sipho Sepamla

Mark Strand

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In line 2, the poet refers to the ‘voices’ of the land. Identify the figure of speech.

Personification

Metaphor

Simile

Pun

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Explain the meaning of the personification in the poem.

Land cannot literally speak. Cronin means that he

wants to understand the people who live there and their languages.

People are reluctant to understand one another, nature comprehends language better

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

The poem is an example of:

An extended metaphor compares two things over more than one line in the poem.

A hyperbole- deliberate exaggeration

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

There is not a single complete sentence in this poem. Why not?

Free verse

Language is always changing- not fixed

There are no capital letters

No punctuation

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Lack/ no punctuation in the poem

Enjambment

Sonnet

Elegy

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the message/theme of the poem?

Life is unfair

Language is not diverse

Learning to speak in a similar language- to understand one another

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