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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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