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WorksheetsMedusa, Thetis and Little Red Cap
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 18mins
In Little Red Cap, the wolf is representative of
Adrian Henry
Henry Stern
Duffy’s grandmother
Duffy’s father
Little Red Cap - What was the age gap between Duffy and her first lover?
16 years
5 years
19 years
23 years
Little Red Cap - In stanza 3, the metaphor ‘lit by the eyes of owls’
Owls are wise, so they are warning her not to go with the wolf
The owls believe that this will be the start of a new adventure for Red Riding Hood
The owls represent the people watching her and the poet in the bar
Little Red Cap - In stanza 6, what has the narrator learned after 10 years in the woods?
She has learned that buried bodies nourish the soil and give new life
She has learned to look for meanings beneath the surface in life and in words
Little Red Cap - What else in stanza 6, what has the narrator learned after 10 years in the woods?
She has learned that words can create a new way of perceiving life
She has learned that the birds can give trees a voice
Little Red Cap - What else in stanza 6, what has the narrator learned after 10 years in the woods?
She has learned that older writers repeat their ideas in different ways.
She has learned that wolves obey an instinctive lunar cycle
Little Red Cap – ‘Sweet Sixteen’ is an example of
Assonance
Simile
Personification
Sibilance
Little Red Cap - The connotations associated with the word ‘babe’
Innocence
Beauty
Immaturity
All of the above
Little Red Cap – the white dove is representative of
Wisdom
Freedom
Innocence
Awe
Little Red Cap, “I took an axe to the wolf as he slept” symbolizes
Duffy’s education
Duffy’s feelings of entrapment
Duffy ending the relationship
Duffy slicing the wolf in half to save her grandmother
Little Red Cap – ‘The glistening virgin white of my grandmother’s bones’ is an example of
Metaphor
Synecdoche
Juxtaposition
Metonymy
Little Red Cup - The effect of assonance in the line ‘got there/wolf’s lair/better beware’ is to
Mimic the heartbeat
Create suspense and mimic Duffy’s excitement
Mimic an animal stalking its prey
All of the above
Little Red Cap – By the end of the poem, the audience learns that Duffy thinks back on the wolf in
As a predator
As part of her coming of age
With contempt
In a positive manner.
Thetis – an albatross is
A type of shellfish
A large white sea bird
A type of fish
A large sea ship
Thetis – the albatross is symbolic of
The protagonist’s feelings of happiness
The protagonist’s marriage ceremony
The protagonist’s feeling of being weighed down
The protagonist’s feelings of happiness
Thetis is written in the poetic form of
A dramatic monologue
A soliloquy
An aside
A sonnet
Thetis was married to:
Zeus
Demeter
Athena
Peleus
Thetis’s son was
Poseidon
Achilles
Spartacus
Claudius
Thetis – ‘Then my tongue was flame
and my kisses burned,
but the groom wore asbestos’
describes Thetis’s eventual....
Submission
Escape
Rape
A and C
C and B
Thetis - The tone of the phrase ‘a suitable shape’ is
Tongue in cheek
Optimistic
Romantic
Compassionate
Medusa’s hamartia is;
Her ambition
Her loneliness
Her jealousy
Her lack of empathy
The fury of Medusa’s speech in the first stanza of the poem is conveyed through
Consonance
Assonance
Sibilance
Reverence
Medusa - A gorgon is;
A woman with three heads
a fierce, frightening, or repulsive woman.
A woman admired for her beauty
A symbol of femininity
Medusa – the use of the rhetorical questions in the final stanza evoke...
Nostalgia
Logos
Ethos
Pathos
