Vocabulary
Figurative Language
Meaning
About the Author
100
What is brickwork?
What is a brick structure or wall?
100
This line is an example of which type figurative language? - "feel like a child"
What is simile?
100
What does Larkin mean when he uses the phrase, " light, chill, and yellow bathes the serene foreheads of houses"?
What is a sunset covering houses?
100
True or False: Larkin is considered a modern poet.
What is true
200
What is the correct definition of astonishing?
What is surprising, amazing?
200
The following line is an example of which figurative language? -"in the deep bare garden it's fresh peeled voice"
What is personification?
200
What does "a thrush sings" mean?
What is a bird chirping "singing" ?
200
True or False: Larkins was inspired by Thomas Carew.
What is false, he was inspired by Thomas Hardy.
300
What is the meaning of "laurel"?
What is shrubs or plants of glossy dark green leaves?
300
There is two types of figurative language used. What is one type of figurative language is used throughout the entire poem?
What is imagery?
300
The author wrote," feel like a child", why?
What is to express his perspective on the "spring" that is now here?
300
True or False Phillip Larkin was married to Sophia Larkin and had 2 daughters.
What is False, never married.
400
What does reconciling mean?
What are make peace, harmonize, balance?
400
"I whose childhood is a forgotten boredom" is an example of what?
What is metaphor?
400
What do you think the author was trying to convey when he said," it will be spring soon"?
What is a life changing event, or his life is going to change?
400
True or False Larkin was a librarian until his death.
What is True
500
What is the definition of serene?
What is calm, peaceful?
500
What is the other type of figurative language used throughout the whole poem?
What is euphony?
500
What do you think Larkin was comparing the coming of spring to?
What is his own life, and how his childhood was "the coming of spring, he had a boring childhood but now "spring is here" and his life has changed?
500
What was the poem he wrote that rejected neo-romantic writing for traditional poetry?
What is "The Movement"?
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