Poetry Anthology - Death of a Naturalist

Where was the poet of Death of a Naturalist from?

• Northern Ireland
• Southern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales

What is the 'death' that is referred to in the title of Death of a Naturalist?

• The death of childhood innocence
• The death of the frogs
• The death of Miss Walls
• The death of the natural world

In Death of a Naturalist, there is a distinct change in tone in the second stanza of the poem. What do we call this poetic technique?

• A volta
• A rhyme
• Caesura
• Enjambment

In Death of a Naturalist, what is the narrator collecting from the flax dam?

• frogspawn
• bluebottles
• frogs
• dragon-flies

In Death of a Naturalist, what technique has been used in the quote 'I sickened, turned, and ran.'

• Tricolon/ the rule of three

• Rhyme

• Enjambment

• Simile

Within 'Death of a Naturalist', which language choices convey the youth and innocence of the speaker.

• Mammy frog

• jampotfuls

• mud grenades

• ran

Complete the line from 'Death of a Naturalist': "Angry frogs _______".

• approach

• appear

• invade

• descend

Within 'Death of a Naturalist', what device is the following phrase "poised like mud grenades"

• imagery

• simile

• rhetorical question

• metaphor

'Death of a Naturalist' is written in free verse with iambic pentameter.

• True

• False

'Death of a Naturalist' has how many stanzas?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4