The poem is probably inspired by...

• Something Duffy's teacher said to her as a child

• Duffy's family moving from Scotland to England as a child

• A story Duffy read in a newspaper about migration

• The real life experiences of refugees

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which Scots word in stanza three might indicate that the speaker still has links to their Scottish roots?

• Culture

• Skelf

• Aye

• Dreich

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.7

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

"Do I only think I lost a river, culture, speech, sense of first space and the right place?" This _____________ suggests the speaker is confused about what identity is made of.

• complex sentence

• rhetorical sentence

• complex question

• rhetorical question

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which short fragmented sentence suggests that the speaker has mixed feelings and uncertainty about their identity and origins?

• And I hesitate

• Where do you come from?

• strangers ask

• Originally

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

"My parents' anxiety stirred like a loose tooth

in my head." What does this simile suggest?

• The need for the parents to see a dentist

• An undiagnosed mental health problem

• A nagging irritation that they don't fit in

• A successful transition to a new home

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which phrase suggest that the speaker found it difficult to fit into their new school?

• Others are sudden

• Your accent wrong

• Leaving you standing

• My parent's anxiety

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

The repetition of which word uses repetition, caesura and enjambment to draw attention to the cries of the brothers who want to return to Scotland?

• Paw

• Home

• Stared

• Cried

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which hyperbolic verb in stanza one emphasises the loss of control amongst the brothers at being forced to leave home?

• singing

• bawling

• cried

• rushed

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

Which word at the start of Stanza Two moves the poem from a personal experience to one of universal significance?

• All

• Childhood

• Some

• Others

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CCSS.RL.11-12.8

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

'As the _____ rushed back to the city'

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CCSS.RL.11-12.10

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.5

CCSS.RL.9-10.10

CCSS.RL.9-10.9