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'The Highwayman': narrative writing

Starter quiz

  • Fill in the gap. 'The Highwayman' is an example of a ...
    • diary
    • narrative poem  ✓
    • newspaper report
  • Order the events of stanzas one-four:
    • 1
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      A Highwayman went riding across a stormy moor at night time.
    • 2
      ⇔
      He arrived at an old inn-yard.
    • 3
      ⇔
      He tapped on the windows' shutters, but they were all locked and barred.
    • 4
      ⇔
      He whistled a tune to the window.
    • 5
      ⇔
      Bess, his love, appeared at the window.
  • Match the poetic devices to their definitions:
    • simile
      ⇔
      comparing two things using 'like' or 'as' ✓
    • metaphor
      ⇔
      comparing two things by saying that one thing is another ✓
    • onomatopoeia
      ⇔
      when a word sounds like the sound it is describing ✓
  • Identify a metaphor used in stanza one:
    • the wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees  ✓
    • the Highwayman came riding - riding - riding
    • the Highwayman came riding up to the old inn-door
  • Identify onomatopoeia used in stanza three:
    • he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard  ✓
    • all was locked and barred
    • Bess, the landlord's daughter
    • plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair
  • Identify a simile used in stanza four:
    • his eyes were hollows of madness
    • his hair like mouldy hay  ✓
    • a stable-wicket creaked
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