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Mid-Term Break - SH
Questions & Quotes based on the poem 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. What is the title of this poem? | Mid-Term Break |
| 2. Who wrote this poem? | Seamus Heaney |
| 3. Where was the poet while he was waiting for a lift home? | College sick bay |
| 4. What was his father doing in the porch? | Crying |
| 5. What was his mother doing? | Coughing out 'angry tearless sighs' |
| 6. Was Heaney the youngest or eldest in the family? | Eldest |
| 7. When did the ambulance arrive? | 10 O'Clock |
| 8. What had happened to his brother? | Killed by impact with a car bumper |
| 9. What was in the room with his brother? | Snowdrops and candles |
| 10. What is the name given to a dead body? | A corpse |
| 11. What is the coffin compared to? | A box |
| 12. What do you call a comparison using 'like' or 'as'? | Simile |
| 13. What size was the coffin? | Four feet |
| 14. What age was Heaney's brother when he died? | Four |
| 15. What is setting in the first verse? | School |
| 16. What feature is associated with repeated initial letters like 'classes' and 'close'? | Alliteration |
| 17. What was the name of the neighbour? | Big Jim Evans |
| 18. What did the people in the house say to Heaney? | Sorry for your trouble |
| 19. The word 'whispers' is an example of what? | Onomatopoeia |
| 20. The repetition of 's' sound in 'angry tearless sighs' is an example of what? | Sibilance |
| 21. The phrase 'four foot' is used more than once. What is the term for this? | Repetition |
| 22. What line shows us that Heaney was bored while waiting in sick bay? | 'I sat all morning in the college sick-bay, counting bells knelling classes to a close.' |
| 23. What writing feature has a repeated vowel? | Assonance |
| 24. What writing feature is evident in the phrase 'poppy bruise'? | Metaphor |
| 25. When two or more words have the same beginning letter, it is known as what? | Alliteration |
| 26. What mood is established when lots of broad vowels are used? | Serious or sad or sincere or reflective |
| 27. What mood is created by using lots of slender vowels? | Excitement or action or bitterness |
| 28. What are the broad vowels? | A, O, U |
| 29. What are the slender vowels? | E, I |
| 30. What does the word 'Break,' in the title, refer to? | A break from school, the broken-hearted parents, the young boy's death from a broken skull, the car that failed to brake in time. |
| I sat all morning | in the college sick bay |
| Counting bells knelling | classes to a close. |
| At two o'clock our neighbours | drove me home. |
| In the porch I met | my father crying-- |
| He had always taken | funerals in his stride-- |
| And Big Jim Evans | saying it was a hard blow. |
| Next morning I went | up into the room. |
| Snowdrops and candles | soothed the bedside; |
| He lay in the four | foot box as in his cot. |
| No gaudy scars, the | bumper knocked him clear. |
| A four foot box, | a foot for every year. |
| 31. What is the term for two things being compared using the words 'like,' 'as,' or 'than'? | Simile - an example is 'He lay in the four foot box as in his cot' because the coffin is compared to a box |
| 32. What is the term for exaggeration? | Hyperbole - an example is 'the playground was three miles long' |
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