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Poetry Revision

  •  English    15     Public
    A revision game on lessons 4,5 and 6 in our Year 9 Poetry Unit so far
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  • List 3 examples of figurative language
  •  15
  • You often refer to me as a unit or paragraph within a poem. What am I?
  •  10
  • Explain one way which we can create imagery
  •  15
  • Identify the rhyme scheme: "I didn't want to teach, So I went to the beach, The sky was so blue, Next time you should come too!"
  •  10
  • Give an example of an 'oxymoron.'
  •  10
  • What is a 'rhyming couplet' and what is a 'quatrain?'
  •  25
  • A Ballad is...
    A story in poetic form
  •  20
  • What emotions are expressed in lyric poetry?
  •  20
  • What are the 4 main types of Ballads
    Love, Tragedy, Comedy, Heroic
  •  20
  • In the song, 'Beautiful Child,' what images come to mind?
  •  5
  • Give an example of a contemporary song which you would define as 'lyric poetry.'
  •  15
  • What is a common genre in 'Australian Ballads?'
  •  5
  • What is an example of a 'rhyming couplet.'
  •  25
  • They chained us two by two and whipped and lashed us all along, They cut off our provisions if we did the least thing wrong. They march us in burning sun until our feet are sore, So hard’s our lot now we have got all on Van Diemen’s shore"
  •  25
  • True or false: There is a set number of stanzas required in Ballads.
  •  15