'Belfast Confetti' Revision

Who wrote Belfast Confetti?

• Jane Weir

• Denise Levertov

• Ciaran Carson

• Thomas Hardy

Which conflict is 'Belfast Confetti' about?

• The Easter Rising

• The Irish Civil War

• The Irish War of Independence

• The Troubles in Northern Ireland

ONE of these statements about the message of 'Belfast Confetti' is FALSE. Choose the FALSE statement.

• Active conflict causes confusion about personal and collective identity

• Conflict can cause familiar places to become unfamiliar

• Communication breaks down during conflict

• There is always someone in the wrong during the conflict

What technique is 'It was raining exclamation marks'?

• Simile

• Metaphor

• Adjective

• Verb

Within the poem, words spill over lines, what does this suggest about the speaker's feelings of the conflict?

• They can't be contained

• He hasn't got any feelings about it

• He can control his feelings about it

• It doesn't have any impact

The poem begins 'suddenly', what does this tell us about the nature of conflict during the troubles?

• It was usually peaceful

• Conflict was ongoing

• Conflict would erupt without warning

• Conflict was extreme

What is the effect of ending the poem with a series of questions: 'What is my name? Where am I coming from? Where am I going?'

• It raises doubt about whether the speaker is an enemy

• It emphasises how conflict causes confusion about personal identity

• It shows that the speaker is a stranger in Belfast

• It shows that the speaker has been hurt in the conflict and probably hit his head so can't remember who he is

Which of these is the correct quote showing the uncertainty created by conflict?

• "A fusillade of question marks"

• "A barrage of question marks"

• "A sudden burst of question marks"

• "Too many question marks"

How did Carson himself describe the form of Belfast Confetti?

• A Haiku of Horror

• A Ballad of death and destruction

• Fragmented like an exploded sonnet

• An unfinished villanelle

In the poem, who had just arrived as a bomb explodes in Belfast?

• The IRA

• The UDA

• The British Army

• The Riot Police