Questions & Quotes based on the poem 'Mid-Term Break' by Seamus Heaney
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1. What is the title of this poem? | show 🗑
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show | Seamus Heaney
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show | College sick bay
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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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show | 10 O'Clock
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show | Killed by impact with a car bumper
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9. What was in the room with his brother? | show 🗑
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show | A corpse
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show | A box
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show | Simile
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show | Four feet
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14. What age was Heaney's brother when he died? | show 🗑
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show | School
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16. What feature is associated with repeated initial letters like 'classes' and 'close'? | show 🗑
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show | Big Jim Evans
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show | Sorry for your trouble
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19. The word 'whispers' is an example of what? | show 🗑
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show | Sibilance
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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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24. What writing feature is evident in the phrase 'poppy bruise'? | show 🗑
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show | Alliteration
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show | Serious or sad or sincere or reflective
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27. What mood is created by using lots of slender vowels? | show 🗑
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28. What are the broad vowels? | show 🗑
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29. What are the slender vowels? | show 🗑
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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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Counting bells knelling | show 🗑
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show | drove me home.
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In the porch I met | show 🗑
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show | funerals in his stride--
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show | saying it was a hard blow.
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show | up into the room.
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show | soothed the bedside;
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He lay in the four | show 🗑
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show | bumper knocked him clear.
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show | a foot for every year.
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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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