First impressions and engaging with 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare | English

Starter quiz

Which of the following front covers are likely to be poetry collections?
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  Rhythm and Poetry ✓
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  Happy poems ✓
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  Wonder
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  Crater Lake
What is a suitable definition of poetry?
- informational books that cover a wide range of topics
- writing that uses creative & rhythmic language to express thoughts and feelings ✓
- longer stories divided into chapters
- traditional stories passed down through generations
True or False? A poem must be a certain length.
- True
- False ✓
In poetry, what do we call a group of lines that form a unit in a poem?
- paragraph
- chapter
- stanza ✓
- verse ✓
Match the poetry feature with its definition.
- theme
  
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  central idea or message conveyed by the poem ✓
- emotion
  
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  evokes feelings and moods through language and tone ✓
- structure
  
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  organised arrangement of lines, stanzas and verses ✓
- symbolism
  
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  use of symbols to represent deeper meanings ✓
- rhyme
  
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  correspondence of sounds, often at the end of lines ✓
Which of the following are features you might expect to find in a poem?
- a specific form
- symbolism ✓
- rhyme ✓
- alliteration ✓
- a specific length

Q1: Rhythm and Poetry, Karl Nova, Caboodle Books Limited
Q1: Happy Poems: A Poetry Collection to Make You Smile!, Roger McGough, Macmillan Children's Books
Q1: Wonder, R J Palacio, Corgi Children's
Q1: Crater Lake, Jennifer Killick, Firefly Press