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WorksheetsBlackberry Picking
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who wrote 'Blackberry Picking'?
William Shakespeare
Seamus Heaney
Carol Ann Duffy
Christina Rossetti
Which group represents humans' attitude to nature in this poem?
The soldiers
The family
The blackberries
The children
Which of these is NOT an adjective to describe the children's attitude to nature?
Greedy
Respectful
Aggressive
Disappointed
Which TWO these are NOT adjectives to describe nature (represented by the blackberries) in this poem?
Beyond human control
Controllable
Fluid
Fixed
Which word completes this quotation from the poem: "A _____ purple clot".
Shiny
Sparkling
Glossy
Dull
Which word is missing from this quotation: "its _____ was sweet like thickened wine."
Skin
Juice
Flesh
Insides
Which word is missing from this quotation: "Our palms were sticky like ______"
Bluebead's
Macbeth's
Killers
Glue
Which word is missing from this quotation: "We ______ the fresh berries".
Kept
Treasured
Protected
Hoarded
Which word is missing from this quotation: "I always felt like ______. It wasn't fair".
Shouting
Screaming
Crying
Complaining
What technique is being used in this example: Hard as a knot.
Metaphor
Simile
Personification
Alliteration
What technique is being used in this example: "summer's blood was in it leaving stains upon the tongue".
Alliteration
Sibilance
Personification
Simile
What technique is being used in this example: "Big dark blobs burned like a plate of eyes."
Metaphor
Personification
Simile
Assonance
What technique is being used in this example: "Our palms sticky as Bluebeard's"
Alliteration
Allusion (a reference to another story or text)
Personification
Metaphor
What word class is "hoarded".
Verb
Adjective
Adverb
Noun
Which of these quotations shows the speaker realising they cannot control nature?
Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.
We hoarded the fresh berries
hunger sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots
Once off the bush the fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.
