To learn how to speak

The structure of the poem is

• a sonnet

• a ballad

• 33 lines written in free verse with an ending couplet. T

• 33 lines written as an iambic pentameter

What type of poem is 'To learn how to speak'?

• Shakespearean sonnet

• Free verse/Lyric

• Italian sonnet

• A protest poem

The tone of the poem is prideful, why?

• All of the answers.

• It is a way to respect the diverse heritage that is part of this country.

• It shows his eagerness to learn the different languages of South Africa as he wants to be a part of it.

• He celebrates the diversity of the country.

"To learn" is a

• finite verb

• infinitive

• a dream

• none of the answers

"To learn how to speak with the voices of the land" Choose two correct answers:

• Introducing a desire snot only to understand and speak the language, but also the heritage.

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Schizophrenia

"Parse" means to

• analyse each word in a sentence.

• bite something

• stop it from happening

• speak loudly

"To parse the speech in its rivers"

• hyperbole

• metaphor

• personification

• tautology

"To catch in the inarticulate grunt" means

• He does not understand a word this person is saying.

• language is extremely difficult to study.

• The person stutters.

• He picks up what people are saying by listening to the sounds of their words and the way the pronounce it.

"stammer, call, cry, babble, tongue's knot"

• None of the answers.

• He is trying to imitate the sounds.

• The person speaks with a stutter and his tongue-tied.

• The process of learning how to speak is difficult.

"a sense of the stoniness of these stones" is an example of

• irony

• assonance

• sibilance

• alliteration