Poetry from Other Cultures and Traditions Cluster 1

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Poetry from Other Cultures and TraditionsCluster
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• Quiz

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Quick Quiz
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Name two poems by poets from America

1. Two Scavengers Lawrence Ferlinghetti
2. What Were They Like? Denise Levertov

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Name two poems that compare the past and present

1. Nothings Changed
2. Island Man
3. Blessing
4. What Were They Like?

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Name three things that the poets father tries as
a cure in Night of the Scorpion

1. Curse
2. Blessing
3. Powder
4. Mixture
5. Herb
6. Hybrid
7. Paraffin

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What colour are the blazers of the garbagemen?

• Red

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What do Tatamkulu Afrikas hands burn for?

1. A stone
2. A bomb

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What is the elegant man wearing?

1. A three-piece linen suit
2. Sunglasses

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What do the people use to collect water with in
Blessing?

1. Pots
2. Buckets
3. Hands

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What does the Commandant stop to buy?

• Sweets

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What saves the narrator in Limbo?

• Music

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What wakes Island Man up?

• The sound of blue surf
• which is really the noise of traffic outside

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Find the quotation
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Which poems do the following quotations come from?

• Stick hit sound
• His crumpled pillow waves
• Sir, their light hearts turned to stone
• Watching some odorless TV ad
• We know where we belong

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Answers

• Stick hit sound
• Limbo
• His crumpled pillow waves
• Island Man
• Sir, their light hearts turned to stone
• What Were They Like
• Watching some odorless TV ad
• Two Scavengers
• We know where we belong
• Nothings Changed

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Identify the technique
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What is the poetic device used in the following
quotations?

• The skin cracks like a pod
• Parting with his poison
• After the children were killed / there were no
  more buds
• So casually coifed
• A pebble on a stem

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Answers

• The skin cracks like a pod
• Simile
• Parting with his poison
• Alliteration
• After the children were killed / there were no
  more buds
• Metaphor
• So casually coifed
• Alliteration
• A pebble on a stem
• Metaphor