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T.H.E - Kenneth Slessor

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 12mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was Slessor's role in WWII?

a)

Soldier

b)

War correspondent

c)

War photgrapher

d)

War poet

2.

What poem does this quote come from?

"Small, pointed, black, like boughs of musket-shot."

a)

Vesper Song

b)

Gulliver

c)

Out of Time

d)

Wild Grapes

3.

Select which poems explore the concept of time.

a)

Gulliver

b)

Wild Grapes

c)

Beach Burial

d)

Out of Time

4.

Finish the quote:


"Anything but this tyranny of (a)   "

5.

What technique is present in this quote: "On this, my vellum of puffed veal"

a)

Simile

b)

Personification

c)

Metaphor

d)

Alliteration

6.

"Eating their flesh, half-savage with black fur." Is an example of what technique?

(a)  

7.

Which poems explore the meaning of human existence?

a)

Gulliver

b)

Wild Grapes

c)

Out of Time

d)

Vesper Song

8.

Which poem challenges the way Australia's history has been represented?

a)

William Street

b)

Beach Burial

c)

Wild Grapes

d)

Vesper Song

9.

Complete this quote: "You find this ugly, I find it (a)   "

10.

Which poems explore a connection to place?

a)

William Street

b)

Beach Burial

c)

Wild Grapes

d)

Out of Time

11.

Which poems are dramatic monologues? (Where Slessor crafts a persona) Select all that apply.

a)

Wild Grapes

b)

Gulliver

c)

Vesper Song

d)

Beach Burial

12.

In 'Gulliver', Slessor makes reference to the book 'Gulliver's Travels'. This is an example of what technique?

a)

Metaphor

b)

Intertextuality

c)

Reference

d)

Quotation

13.

What is an elegy?

a)

A lament for the dead

b)

An eulogy

c)

A speech

d)

Praise for the dead

14.

Which poem can be defined as an elegy?

(a)  

15.

"So Time, the wave, enfolds me in its bed,

Or Time, the bony knife, it runs me through." Is an example of what technique?

a)

Personification

b)

Repetition

c)

Alliteration

d)

Metaphor