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Who did Beowulf kill?
Grendel and Grendel's mother
Who wrote Sonnet 130?
William Shakespeare
'The Dugout' was based around which war?
WWI
Which country was Nelson Mandela from?
South Africa
Alliteration is...
When words start with the same sounds.
Carol Ann Duffy was not from Liverpool. Why did she write 'North West' about it?
She went to university there/lived there.
What two words usually denote a simile?
'like' or 'as'
In 'The Great Dictionary Disaster', what are the words doing?
Returning to their original languages
Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a series of poems called the __________ Tales?
Canterbury
Beowulf was written in what kind of English?
Old English
'The Dugout' was written by who?
Siegfried Sassoon
The Canterbury Tales was written in what kind of English?
Middle English
What is a metaphor?
Comparing two things by saying one IS the other
'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was written by who?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
BOOM, crack and splash are examples of what poetic device?
Onomatopoeia
Complete the quote:
"Into the _______________ rode the six hundred"
Valley of Death, Jaws of Death or Mouth of Hell
Sonnet 130 was part of what literary era?
The Renaissance
'The Charge of the Light Brigade' was about which war?
The Crimean War
Where does 'Island Man' really live?
London
In the 'oral tradition', how were poems passed down?
By saying them out loud
Name two things that inspired the Romantic era poets.
Nature, animals, innocence, childhood, beauty
'The Red Wheelbarrow' and 'The Pool' were examples of what type of poetry?
Modernist / Imagist
Sonnet 130 was written in what kind of English?
Early Modern English
Complete the quote from 'North West':
"Frets of the light on the river. _________ air."
Tearful
He is looking into the better life that the white people have, but is trapped outside and can't reach it.