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WorksheetsKnowledge Quiz - 'Tissue'
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Summarise your understanding of the poem
What links can be made between humans and paper?
Our lives are like paper.
They can both be marked.
Both paper and humans are made up of tissue.
They can both be destroyed.
What links can be made between an architect and God.
Their building projects were very expensive.
The materials they use for construction come from the earth.
Their building projects took 6 days to complete and they rested on the seventh.
They are both designers.
What theme runs through the poem 'Tissue'?
Guilt
Reality of conflict
Identity
Loss and absence
Besides nature, what else could light represent?.....
Angels
Truth
Warmth
God
'Maps too. The sun shines through' highlight....
Rays of sun
Borders control mankind.
Maps are transparent
Our lives are mapped out before us.
What form is the poem 'Tissue' written in?
Free verse
Sonnet
Blank verse
Soliliquoy
'Paper' is a metaphor for....?
Gender
Human power.
Heritage
Wealth
What structural device has the poet used in 'Tissue'? Why?
Enjambment to mirror the ideas in the poem about the extent of human control or lack of it.
Caesura to emphasise man's arrogance.
Iambic pentameter to recognise those of high culture and position in society.
Cyclical for a humorous effect
'light' symbolizes?... Choose two answers.
Truth
nature
people
wind
'Tissue' is from Dharker's collection 'Terrorist at my table' - how does this link to the idea of layers in people's characters?
'Fly our lives like paper kites' is an example of what poetic technique?
Metaphor
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Personification
In what ways might money be said to control our lives? (Tick all that apply)
Makes us happy
Provides the ability to travel
Helps us to fulfil our basic needs
Debt can dominate people's lives
