Misc.
General Komninos
'eat'
'noura from noorama'
'thomastown talk'
100
Name the four main human blood groups.
A, B, AB and O.
100
What is Komninos' cultural background?
Greek-Australian
100
What two images were contrasted in stanza one?
"a skinny child doesn’t look healthy / a plump one has a warm robust glow"
100
What adjective does the persona constantly use when she describes her house?
Beautiful.
100
'What can you do mate?' and 'report it?' are examples of what literary technique?
Rhetorical Question
200
Which illness wiped out thousands of people across Europe during the 14th Century?
The Bubonic Plague.
200
Where was Komninos born?
Richmond, Melbourne.
200
What is the literary technique that is a type of sentence that makes a command, gives a direction, or expresses instructions of some kind...
An imperative sentence
200
The persona gains objects and accomplishments as she develops her independence. Which item is missing from this list? Craft, embroidery, crochet, her new flat, a drivers license and _____
A cheque book
200
What is the technique in the lines, "two broken fingers, they're not straight mate"?
A pun.
300
How many symphonies did Beethoven compose?
9.
300
What year was Komninos born?
1950.
300
Fill in the blank; the eat all you like diet / the don't eat at all diet / the ___ ____ ____ ___ _____ diet
'the fill yourself up with fibre diet'
300
What is the phrase that concludes the poem and is repeated with increasing intensity?
"he’ll never hurt me again"
300
Fill in the blank; "what can you do mate? buy a ____"
"buy a ford"
400
Which species of mollusc and a planet share a name?
Venus
400
Who was Komninos' greatest influence and why?
His maternal grandmother, she was a 'great rapper' and influenced his love of words.
400
What was the old proverb / maxim Komninos referenced in the poem?
"beauty is only skin deep"
400
What is warak einab?
Stuffed grape leaves known as “Warak Enab” in Arabic, is a Lebanese dish of spiced rice and beef rolled in grape leaves.
400
What is the name of the individual the poem 'thomastown talk' is based on?
Con
500
According to Japanese legend, a sick person will recover if they fold 1,000 of what type of origami?
1,000 paper cranes
500
Komninos won two awards for his work in 1991 and 1992. What were they?
Komninos received the Human Rights Commission award for Literature in New South Wales in 1991 and in 1992 the Ros Bower Community Artist of the Year by the Australia Council for the Arts for the work he has done with a range of schools and groups in the community.
500
Who is the actor Komninos wished he looked like at the end of the poem?
Richard Gere
500
What does 'filial' mean?
"relating to or due from a son or daughter."
500
The lines "lock you in a cell mate / all around all brick mate" conveys a sense of what?
A sense of entrapment