literary terms
Empire 1
Empire 2
Empire 3
Empire 4
100
The people that inhabit the fictional world
What are characters?
100
The school is the kidnappers in this poem.
What is "Kidnapped"?
100
Ruled 33% of the whole world in 1922.
What is the British Empire?
100
The article with the man from Pakistan.
What is "The man who fell to earth"?
100
The countries that make up the United Kingdom
What are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
200
A narration which starts in the middle of a scene or a situation without an introduction
What is in media res?
200
India, Pakistan and Australia in 1922.
What are British colonies?
200
John Agard.
What is“Listen Mr Oxford don”/ Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster?
200
India, Pakistan and Australia in 1922.
What are British colonies?
200
Expression from a poem: black man, half-devil and half-child.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
300
The person who tells the story.
What is a narrator?
300
Poem that expresses a certain obligation or duty that the British had.
What is "The White Man's Burden"?
300
Ruled the British Empire for 63 years and 7 month.
Who was Queen Victoria?
300
The opposite style of how we write in essays.
What is nonstandard English?
300
In this drawing from 1923 related to a famous poem, a person gets help.
What is a black man?
400
Implications and associations that a word carries or suggests in addition to its literal meaning, as opposed to denotation.
What is connotation?
400
The idea of the British Empire were built on certain concepts relating to the difference between whites and non-whites.
What is superiority versus inferiority?
400
Style of writing John Agard makes use of in the poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster”. Also known from the news.
What is a report?
400
AT which occasions is “Rule Britannia” sung?
What is football matches?
400
In this drawing from 1923 related to a famous poem somebody gets help.
What is a black man?
500
The place that a story takes place.
What is setting?
500
Agard’s reflections in his poetry.
What is clashes between immigrant and British culture
500
Personified word which derives from France used in the poem “Reporting from the Frontline of the Great Dictionary Disaster” written by John Agard
What are "baguettes"?
500
The year “God Save The Queen” written?
What is 1745
500
The British author and poet who wrote "The White Man's Burden"
What is Rudyard Kipling?
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