Knowledge Quiz - 'Tissue'

Summarise your understanding of the poem

What links can be made between humans and paper?

• Our lives are like paper.

• They can both be marked.

• Both paper and humans are made up of tissue.

• They can both be destroyed.

What links can be made between an architect and God.

• Their building projects were very expensive.

• The materials they use for construction come from the earth.

• Their building projects took 6 days to complete and they rested on the seventh.

• They are both designers.

What theme runs through the poem 'Tissue'?

• Guilt

• Reality of conflict

• Identity

• Loss and absence

Besides nature, what else could light represent?.....

• Angels

• Truth

• Warmth

• God

'Maps too. The sun shines through' highlight....

• Rays of sun

• Borders control mankind.

• Maps are transparent

• Our lives are mapped out before us.

What form is the poem 'Tissue' written in?

• Free verse

• Sonnet

• Blank verse

• Soliliquoy

'Paper' is a metaphor for....?

• Gender

• Human power.

• Heritage

• Wealth

What structural device has the poet used in 'Tissue'? Why?

• Enjambment to mirror the ideas in the poem about the extent of human control or lack of it.

• Caesura to emphasise man's arrogance.

• Iambic pentameter to recognise those of high culture and position in society.

• Cyclical for a humorous effect

'light' symbolizes?... Choose two answers.

• Truth

• nature

• people

• wind