Questions & Quotes based on the poem 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney
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| show | Mid-Term Break
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| 2. Who wrote this poem? | show 🗑
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| 3. Where was the poet while he was waiting for a lift home? | show 🗑
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| 4. What was his father doing in the porch? | show 🗑
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| 5. What was his mother doing? | show 🗑
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| 6. Was Heaney the youngest or eldest in the family? | show 🗑
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| 7. When did the ambulance arrive? | show 🗑
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| show | Killed by impact with a car bumper
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| show | Snowdrops and candles
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| 10. What is the name given to a dead body? | show 🗑
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| show | A box
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| 12. What do you call a comparison using 'like' or 'as'? | show 🗑
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| show | Four feet
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| show | Four
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| 15. What is setting in the first verse? | show 🗑
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| show | Alliteration
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| 17. What was the name of the neighbour? | show 🗑
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| show | Sorry for your trouble
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| show | Onomatopoeia
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| 20. The repetition of 's' sound in 'angry tearless sighs' is an example of what? | show 🗑
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| 21. The phrase 'four foot' is used more than once. What is the term for this? | show 🗑
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| show | 'I sat all morning in the college sick-bay, counting bells knelling classes to a close.'
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| show | Assonance
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| show | Metaphor
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| 25. When two or more words have the same beginning letter, it is known as what? | show 🗑
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| 26. What mood is established when lots of broad vowels are used? | show 🗑
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| 27. What mood is created by using lots of slender vowels? | show 🗑
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| show | A, O, U
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| show | E, I
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| show | 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.
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| show | in the college sick bay
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| show | classes to a close.
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| show | drove me home.
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| show | my father crying--
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| He had always taken | show 🗑
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| show | saying it was a hard blow.
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| show | up into the room.
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| Snowdrops and candles | show 🗑
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| show | foot box as in his cot.
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| No gaudy scars, the | show 🗑
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| A four foot box, | show 🗑
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| 31. What is the term for two things being compared using the words 'like,' 'as,' or 'than'? | show 🗑
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| 32. What is the term for exaggeration? | show 🗑
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