WorksheetsSlessor Quiz
Total questions: 23
Worksheet time: 20mins
Match the poem's content to the poem:
Beach Burial
the impact of El Alamein WW2
Wild Grapes
changes to an orchard over time
William Street
the busy life of King's Cross
Match the poem's content to the poem:
Gulliver
The impact of life's problems
Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
The violence of the flogging parson
Out of Time
The impact of time on life
For which poem did Slessor draw on his experience as a war correspondent?
Wild Grapes
Beach Burial
William Street
Which poem alludes to the victim of a murder?
William Street
Beach Burial
Wild Grapes
Which poem draws on a famous literary character?
Gulliver
Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
Out of Time
Synaesthesia refers to:
the blending or fusion of different types of sensory imagery
colour blindness
the use of a number of words with similar meanings
a particular blend of purple grapes
Match the following quotes to the poems:
Wild Grapes
"long drowned in earth themselves"
Beach Burial
"the breath of the wet season"
William Street
"Ranging the pavements of their pasturage"
Match the following quotes to the poems:
Gulliver
"I snap them, swollen with sobbing."
Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
"On backs bowed down and bodies bent."
Out of Time
"Eager to quench and ripen, kiss or kill"
Which of the following are examples of synaesthesia?
"full of smoking air / full of sour marsh"
"puffs of paraffin that crimp the nose, / of grease that blesses onions with a hiss"
"And tread the sand upon their nakedness"
"You find this ugly, I find it lovely"
Antithesis refers to:
an argument or dispute
two things that are closely connected
the rhetorical contrast of ideas
aggression between sisters
Which poems reflect on the fragility of human memory?
Wild Grapes
William Street
Beach Burial
Match the following example to the technique:
Simile
"apples bright as dogstars"
Personification
"hunger at their heels"
Metaphor
"convoys of dead soldiers"
Antithesis
"You find this ugly, I find it lovely"
Religious imagery
"blesses onions"
Match the following example to the technique:
Rhetorical question
"But what can you do with hairs?"
Imperative command
"Grant there may be a Heavenly Cat"
Simile
"Time flowing like a hundred yachts"
Accumulation
"Love, hunger, drunkenness, neuralgia"
Metaphor
"So Time, the wave...the bony knife"
Which poem is an elegy?
Wild Grapes
William Street
Beach Burial
Which poem is a dramatic monologue?
Wild Grapes
William Street
Beach Burial
Which poem suggests a sympathy for those in poverty?
Wild Grapes
William Street
Beach Burial
Which of the following explores the emotion of death and mourning?
"long drowned in earth themselves"
"Ghosts' trousers, like the dangle of hung men"
"The words choke as they begin-"
"Kissed her - or killed here -"
Which poem is a sonnet cycle?
Wild Grapes
Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
Out of Time
Gulliver
Which sonnet is an ode?
Wild Grapes
William Street
Vesper Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
Out of Time
Which poem draws on a famous novel for its inspiration?
'Wild Grapes'
'Gulliver'
'Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden'
'Out of Time'
Which poem is centred on a historical allusion?
'Wild Grapes'
'Gulliver'
'Vesper-Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden'
'Out of Time'
Match the following poem to relevant context:
Wild Grapes
Challenges traditional views; modernist
William Street
Written during the great depression
Beach Burial
Slessor worked as a WW war correspondent
Vesper Song of Reverend Samuel Marsden
Draws on Australian colonial history
Out of Time
Slessor lived near the harvour
Slessor alludes to Othello's "I kissed thee 'ere I kill'd thee" in the final scene of Shakespeare's play in both (a) and (b)
