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WorksheetsFilial Piety Poem Introduction
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What does filial piety mean?
Respecting older family members
Obedience to country
Respect to teachers
Loyalty
What is going on in the poem?
An old man is complaining about his family members
The family members are carrying out funeral rites for an old man
The family is cremating the old man
The family is at the hospital paying their last respects
Which words in stanza 1 suggest that the feelings felt by the family were not sincere? (2 correct)
display
waste
taught
black
What is the literary device used in "The hall was dressed with condolences
the coffin was heaped with sympathy"
Allusion
Diction
Repetition
Personification
How does "wailing symphony" show how the family members were not genuinely sad about the death of the old man?
What literary device do you see in "Many gestured their last respects
Many sobbed their sad regrets
Many mourned their heartfelt loss"
Simile
Personification
Repetition
Metaphor
What attitude do the family members have when they play "cards, mahjong and dice-tossed"? (2 answers)
Indifferent
Disrespectful
Guilty
Mournful
Which words in stanza 4 suggest that they were merely doing their job as relatives and not because they are sad over his death? (2 answers)
"performed"
"precise"
"tears"
"ceremony"
"Uncles should offer roasted pigs
aunties should come with big baked cakes
sisters should wail their very best
and their husbands must buy the paper chests." Which word here is used to show that the family members are just "doing their job"?
come
offer
should
wail
What is the literary device used in "only his two lonely candle flames remained
to weep his years of pain." (2 answers)
Diction
Personification
Repetition
Contrast
