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'The Highwayman': narrative writing

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  • What is a narrative poem?
    • a non-fiction text about a subject
    • a factual recount of a real-life event
    • a poem that tells a story  ✓
  • 'The Highwayman' was written by ...
    • William Shakespeare.
    • Alfred Noyes.  ✓
    • Charles Dickens.
  • What does 'rural' mean?
    • set in a city
    • set in a village
    • set in a town
    • set in the countryside  ✓
  • Match the figurative language types to their examples.
    • metaphor
      ⇔
      his hands were blocks of ice ✓
    • simile
      ⇔
      the sky was as black as coal ✓
    • personification
      ⇔
      the desperate, lonely moor ✓
  • Match the poetic devices to their examples.
    • alliteration
      ⇔
      the horse's hooves hammered the path ✓
    • repetition
      ⇔
      racing - racing - racing ✓
    • rhyme
      ⇔
      chin, skin ✓
  • 'His eyes were hollows of madness' is an example of which literary device?
    • alliteration
    • simile
    • metaphor  ✓
    • rhyme
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