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WorksheetsNorman MacCaig - Basking Shark
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
"To stub an oar on a ______ where none should be,"
Stone
Shark
Rock
Boat
What effect is created by using the word "slounge"?
To make it seem like the shark is looming out of the water
To show the quick, rapid movements of the shark
To make the shark seem scary
To show the slow, ponderous movements of the shark
"Is a thing that happened once (too often) to me." What tone is being created by the parenthesis?
Humour
Sadness
Fear
Anger
"a sea tin-tacked with rain" - What effect is created by this quote?
It makes the reader happy
It makes the reader hear the sound of the rain
It makes the reader hear the sea
It makes the reader question their place in the world
"That roomsized monster with a matchbox brain." creates a (a)
"this decadent townee" - what does MacCaig mean by this?
He lives in a city
He doesn't care about the past
He has immersed himself in nature and giving help to others
He has separated himself from nature and is focused on hedonism.
"Swish up the dirt" - Swish is an example of what technique?
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration
Synecdoche
"Emerging from the slime of everything" - what point is being made here?
That we are all disgusting
That we all come from the same origins
That the shark has serious mucus issues
That the narrator has fallen in the water
"So who’s the monster?" shows us the narrator is beginning to think that...
Nothing is monstrous
The shark is a monster
Everything is a monster
Humanity is the monster.
"The thought made me grow pale
For (a) seconds"
"The tall fin slid away and then the tail." This makes the shark seem...
Elegant
Fast
Slow
Clumsy
What are the main themes of this poem?
Humanities connection to nature
Love
The human condition
Conflict
