Figurative Language
vocabulary
meaning
imagery
miscellaneous
100
What type of figurative language is the phrase "feel like a child?"
What is simile
100
What is brickwork?
What is work with bricks.
100
What is the meaning of the theme?
What is to let people know that you can be happy even when your the saddest.
100
What is singing in the poem?
What is a thrush.
100
What is the name of the author of this poem?
What is Phillip Larkin.
200
What figurative language is described throughout the whole poem?
What is imagery.
200
What is a thrush?
What is a small or medium sized bird.
200
What does the attitude say about the author?
What is that in his normal life he is unhappy and alone, but now that it is spring he is full of happiness.
200
What season will it be?
What is spring
200
What does poetry mean?
What is to make.
300
"Bathes the serene foreheads of houses", is using what type of figurative language?
What is personification.
300
What does serene mean?
What is peaceful and calm.
300
What does "And I, whose childhood is a forgotten boredom", mean?
What is it means that his childhood was not great, so he is happy that now children can play and enjoy the spring.
300
What is the only color mentioned by name in the poem?
What is yellow.
300
Where was Phillip Larkin born?
What is Coventry, New England.
400
What does laurel mean?
What is shrubs or plants with dark, glossy leaves.
400
What is the shift in the poem?
What is it goes from being kind of dark and scary to being happy and peaceful.
400
Is a child or man being described in the poem?
What is a man.
400
Why is the man sad at the beginning of the poem, then happy at the end?
What is in the beginning it talks about it being dark and quiet and at the end he is overwhelmed with joy for spring.
500
What type of figurative language is "It will be spring soon, It will be spring soon?"
What is repitition.
500
What does reconciling mean?
What is to restore relations.
500
What is the meaning of the title of the poem?
What is spring is coming
500
Where is the thrush singing?
What is the garden.
500
Why do people write poetry?
What is for self expression.
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