SWIB
What is the woman compared to in the first line of the poem?
“She walks in beauty, like the night.”
What should the quote be and what poem is it from?
“There’s some spot of a faraway place / That is for ever home”
“there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England”
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
Who is the speaker addressing in the poem?
The season of Autumn!
What techniques are used in “we hiss’d along the polish’d ice”?
Bonus 100: Name the poem and the poet!
Onomatopoeia and sibilance!
The Prelude by Wordsworth
What time of year is being described?
Winter!
What is the lowest number to have the same value as ten times the number of letters in its name?
50!
What phrase does Lord Byron use to describe the woman's mind?
"dwelling-place"
What should the quote be and what poem is it from?
“Grouping gulps sing in the sky”
“Gathering swallows twitter in the skies”
To Autumn by John Keats
Name three images or activities from the first stanza that show the abundance of autumn.
Fruit ripening on the vines
Trees filled with apples
Bees buzzing around late flowers
What does caesura mean, and how can it reflect a poem’s tone or subject?
A pause in the middle of a line (e.g., a full stop or dash). It can reflect hesitation, emotional conflict or a break in thought.
What does the speaker ignore?
Curfew!
Q: In the puzzle below, what four words replace the question mark?
Shatter the frozen water = Break the ice
You can’t access a novel by its dust jacket = You can’t judge a book by its cover
Illustrious intellects imagine identically = ?
Great minds think alike!
What is the effect of the simile “like the night” in line one?
It suggests her beauty is calm, subtle and natural, not bold like the sun but soft like a starry night.
What should the quote be and who is the poet?
“The amber sky of dusk disappeared.”
“The orange sky of evening died away.”
The Prelude by William Wordsworth
How does Keats describe the sounds of autumn in the final stanza?
the bleating of lambs, singing of crickets, whistling of red-breast birds and swallows twittering in the sky
Why might a poet choose to use sibilance?
Sibilance (repetition of ‘s’ sounds) can create softness, tension or a sinister effect and can slow the reader down.
What simile is used to describe the speaker’s energy?
“Like an untir’d horse, that cares not for his home”
Q: What number replaces the question mark in the sequence below?
7 8 5 5 3 4 4 ? 9 7 8 8
6! The sequence is the number of letters in the names of the months in a calendar year. The question mark represents August and there are six letters in August.
Identify two examples of alliteration in the poem and explain their effect.
“Cloudless climes” and “starry skies” are examples. The repetition of sounds makes the description more musical and memorable.
What should the quote be and who is the poet?
"They glide in pretty, similar to the dark"
"She walks in beauty, like the night”
What is the personified image of Autumn doing in the second stanza?
A figure sitting on granary floors, watching cider pressings or falling asleep in the fields.
What is an oxymoron? Provide an example and its possible effect.
An oxymoron is when two contradictory terms are placed together. It can show confusion or contrast.
How does nature interact with the children’s games?
It echoes their noise!
Without reordering any letters, how many animals appear in the sequence below?
P H E A S A N T O R T O I S E A L I O N
6! PHEASANT, SEALION, ANT, SEAL, TORTOISE and LION. [Yes, ants are animals.]
Improve and perform a better version of the first stanza:
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Yay!
What should the quote be and what is the poem?
"His grasp, who the grub is now mates with"
“His hand, whom the worm now knows”
A Wife in London by Thomas Hardy
Modernise and perform a better opening:
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
YAYA!
What is irony? Give a quote from a poem as an example: think war!
Saying the opposite of what you mean or the opposite outcome to what is expected.
Dulce et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori
How does The Prelude reflect Romantic ideas?
It celebrates childhood, nature, freedom, imagination, and the emotional connection between humans and the natural world.
Peter has recently found his old diary that he’d written in secret code but he can’t remember how to decipher what he wrote. Can you check the code to find out what the underlined word is?
WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72
FLORIST!
Where he could, he replaced a letter with a digit that starts with that letter.