WorksheetsT.H.E - Kenneth Slessor
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 12mins
What was Slessor's role in WWII?
Soldier
War correspondent
War photgrapher
War poet
What poem does this quote come from?
"Small, pointed, black, like boughs of musket-shot."
Vesper Song
Gulliver
Out of Time
Wild Grapes
Select which poems explore the concept of time.
Gulliver
Wild Grapes
Beach Burial
Out of Time
Finish the quote:
"Anything but this tyranny of (a) "
What technique is present in this quote: "On this, my vellum of puffed veal"
Simile
Personification
Metaphor
Alliteration
"Eating their flesh, half-savage with black fur." Is an example of what technique?
(a)
Which poems explore the meaning of human existence?
Gulliver
Wild Grapes
Out of Time
Vesper Song
Which poem challenges the way Australia's history has been represented?
William Street
Beach Burial
Wild Grapes
Vesper Song
Complete this quote: "You find this ugly, I find it (a) "
Which poems explore a connection to place?
William Street
Beach Burial
Wild Grapes
Out of Time
Which poems are dramatic monologues? (Where Slessor crafts a persona) Select all that apply.
Wild Grapes
Gulliver
Vesper Song
Beach Burial
In 'Gulliver', Slessor makes reference to the book 'Gulliver's Travels'. This is an example of what technique?
Metaphor
Intertextuality
Reference
Quotation
What is an elegy?
A lament for the dead
An eulogy
A speech
Praise for the dead
Which poem can be defined as an elegy?
(a)
"So Time, the wave, enfolds me in its bed,
Or Time, the bony knife, it runs me through." Is an example of what technique?
Personification
Repetition
Alliteration
Metaphor
