Tuft of Flowers - Robert Frost

Where is the poem set?

• A rural village

• Outdoors in a field or meadow with trees and a brook

• A busy town

What is the speaker looking for?

• The man who cut the grass

• His boss

• A scythe

Is the poem written in

• Third person

• First person

• Second person

What is the dominant feeling in the first half of the poem?

• Anger

• Loneliness

• Boredom

• Joy

What type of creature distracts the speaker?

• A bird

• A spider

• A butterfly

Structure: the poem is written in:

• Couplets

• Tercets

• Quatrains

Is there rhyme in the poem?

• Yes: AA BB

• Yes: AB AB

• None

• Some

What techniques are present in the following quotation:

"A leaping tongue of bloom"

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Both of the above

What techniques are present in the following quotation:

"And hear his long scythe whispering to the ground"

• Personification

• Alliteration

Complete the quotation:

'Men work _________' I told him from the ______

'Whether they work together or ________

• alone - dream

  as a team

• together - heart

  apart

• for money - heart

  alone