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WorksheetsKS5 Quiz - O by the by
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which country was ee cummings from?
Africa
Algeria
Great Britain
USA
What is unusual about ee cumming's poetry?
The number of lines
Punctuation and grammar
His use of colours
The tone
The meaning of ee cumming's poems are classed as being ambiguous. Why?
Because it has a clear meaning
Because uses open ended questions
Because there could be multiple different interpretations
Because there are many possible authors of the work
ee cummings is said to have used lower case because…
He wanted his language to appear simple
He thought that capital letters were too posh
He wanted to show humility
He didn't like show-offs
ee cummings had no concerns for form or specific types of structure. What is this format of poetry called?
Iambic Pentameter
Free verse
Nonsense
Lyrical ballad
What is 'it' in "it dived like a fish but it climbed like a dream?
Wish
Arrow
Spell
Dream
What technique is used as well as simile in 'Dive like a fish...climb like a dream'?
Asyndeton
Foreshadowing
Personification
Oxymoron
Which of these words are onomatopeiac?
blue, hill, heart
green, threw, fish
end, string, somebody
swoop, dart, singing
Which of these lines uses personification?
and somebody will tell
singing like a flame
o by the by
me why people let go
Which theme comes across in this poem from the lines: 'but it climbed like a dream'
Achievement
Unhappiness
Black clouds
Holding a string
In your interpretation, what do you think is most likely to be at the end of the string?
Dog
Fire
Kite
Corpse
The poem contains several possessive pronouns. Write three examples
(a)
What does 'by the by' normally mean?
An idea that is unrelated to the previous topic
On your way
An irrelevant topic
Near some place you are going anyway
What is the only punctuation that the author uses?
Parenthesis
lower cases letters
line breaks
apostrophes
Who could the persona 'You-I' represent?
The speaker's younger self
The speaker's younger self and his present self
The speaker's future self
The speaker's son
