Literary Devices
What kind of poetic device is used here: "The clouds become pregnant. / They let down rain. / The earth drinks the water. / Plants grow roots. / They bear leaves and flowers."
Personification
What kind of text type is "Mrs Darwin" written in?
Journal/diary entry
What does the number nine symbolize?
Birth/beginning of life (nine months of pregnancy)
What was the age of the oldest person to have ever lived?
122 years old
“living laughing love” is an example of ___________ (poetic device) from _______________ (text)
What does the "white dove" symbolize in "Little Red Cap"?
Innocence of childhood, potentially her freedom/independence
By lighting a fire and chasing away with its light
What is the body's largest organ?
What is the major criticism of Icarus in “Mrs Icarus” (use the Greek term)!
Hubris
How does the epic end?
Gikuyu and Mumbi give them a list of values they should uphold (like the Ten Commandments)
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its...?
brain
When the narrator says, "I implore thee God Supreme for the power to faithfully tell this tale of Gikuyu and Mumbi," what is the epic convention used here?
Invocation
An Shakespearean sonnet consists of three _________ and one __________. It therefore consists of _________ lines in total.
Three quatrains, one couplet, fourteen lines
What do the hyena and vulture represent?
Scavengers - sly, sneaky, evil
The longest place name in the world - Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - is in which country?
New Zealand
Think of two examples of internal rhyme in "Little Red Cap"
sixteen, been
babe, waif
clues, shoes
there, lair, beware
List all of the animals Medusa turns into stone (in sequence).
bee, bird, cat, pig, and dragon
Name three examples which portray the theme of cooperation
Water, Earth, Air, Sun
In which country are men younger than 70 banned from having a beard?
Turkmenistan