Welcome to the Poetry Quiz

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Welcome to the Poetry Quiz!
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Task One

• Sit quietly in your groups.
• Listen carefully to all instuctions. They wont
  be repeated!

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Task Two

• In your groups, you have one minute to explain
  what a poem is.
• Are you ready?

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• GO!

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Task Three

• In your groups you now have two minutes to write
  down the names of as many poets as you can
  remember.

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How many did you get?

• 1 3 Could do better
• 4 6 Good
• 6 - Brilliant!

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Task Four
How much do you know about poetry?
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Rhyme
Alliteration
Poet
Rhythm
Enjambement
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Heres a quick quiz. See if you can guess the
correct answer before it is revealed.
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Pick out the right answer from three choices.
Rhythm is 1. The land the where Peter Pan
lived. 2. A regular movement or beat. 3.
When words sound like each other.
Onomatopoeia is 1. Another word meaning loud
sound. 2. A type of doormat that they used in
theatres. 3. Words like bang, sounding like the
sound they describe.
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Pick out the right answer from three choices.
A metaphor is 1. A direct comparison, when
something is something else. 2. A comparison
when something is like something else. 3. A way
of speech.
Alliteration is 1. Spreading litter on the
floor. 2.Words that end with the same letter.
3. Words that start with the same letter.
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Similes are 1. Big smiles. 2. Similarities. 3.
Comparisons where something is described as being
like something else.
Poets are 1. People who write poetry and use
their imaginations to do so. 2. People who like
Po, the Teletubby. 3. Any writers.
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Rhyme is 1. Sameness of the final sounds in
words. 2. Words that mean the same thing but are
spelt differently. 3. A type of poetic crime.
Enjambement is 1. A French word meaning long
legs. 2. Where a sentence in poetry runs onto
more than one line. 3. A French food.
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Can you remember all the answers? Write down a
meaning for each word. (You only have a few
seconds.)
Are you ready? HERE GOES...
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Metaphor
Simile
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Poet
Onomatopoeia
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Enjambement
Rhyme
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Rhythm
Alliteration
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How well did you do? Did you learn anything new?
Keep an eye out for these ideas and vocabulary in
the rest of the unit!
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Task Five

• You have three minutes to write a poem about the
  picture that will appear on screen.
• It must include
• A simile
• A metaphor
• Seven adjectives

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How did you do?

• No simile/metaphor/adjectives
• could do better
• Ok
• only a simile and a metaphor
• Brilliant
• simile, metaphor and lots of adjectives
  too!

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Task Six

• Can you remember any quotes from poems?
• Write your ideas down so that you dont give the
  answers away to other groups!

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How many did you think of?

• 0 1 Could do better
• 2 3 OK
• 4 5 Good
• 6 - Genius!

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Task Seven

• On the next slide there is a list of information
  about a famous poet, William Shakespeare. You
  will have one minute to read and memorise it. You
  will then have two minutes to write down as much
  as you can remember as a group.
• Anyone writing down ideas before the slide is
  taken away will be DISQUALIFIED!!!!!

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Information about Shakespeare and his life

• He performed his plays at the Globe Theatre which
  opened in 1599.
• He had his plays performed during the day.
• Shakespeare introduced a lot of words into the
  English language like apparition and lonely.
• Shakespeare was a playwright, poet and an actor.
• Some actors played more than one role in
  Shakespeares plays.
• Female roles were played by men.
• Costume was very important in Elizabethan
  theatre.
• Shakespeare wrote lots of sonnets.
• Phrases that Shakespeare created are
• Foul play.
• good riddance.
• dead as a door nail.

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How much can you remember?
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How much did you remember?

• He performed his plays at the Globe Theatre which
  opened in 1599.
• He had his plays performed during the day.
• Shakespeare introduced a lot of words into the
  English language like apparition and lonely.
• Shakespeare was a playwright, poet and an actor.
• Some actors played more than one role in
  Shakespeares plays.
• Female roles were played by men.
• Costume was very important in Elizabethan
  theatre.
• Shakespeare wrote lots of sonnets.
• Phrases that Shakespeare created are
• Foul play.
• good riddance.
• dead as a door nail.

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Task Eight

• Choose two quotes from the following poem and
  write down either
• The writers message
• The intended effect on the reader.

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Tumbling Hair by e e cummings

• Tumbling-hair
• picker of buttercups
  violets
• dandelions
• And the big bullying daisies
  through the field wonderful
• with eyes a little sorry
• Another comes
• also picking flowers

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Who won the quiz?

• Congratulations!!!