Starter quiz
- In Naidu's 'The Gift of India', who is the 'gift' in the title referring to?
- The soldiers ✓
- India itself
- Britain
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- The act of giving up something valued for the sake of other considerations is known as a ______.
- 'sacrifice' ✓
- What does the speaker in Naidu's 'The Gift of India' want to happen to the soldiers?
- For them to be forgotten
- For them to be remembered ✓
- For them to be resurrected
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- When did the British government take direct control over India?
- 1638
- 1858 ✓
- 1948
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- Why was the speaker in Naidu's 'The Gift of India' proud of the soldiers?
- Because they fought for Britain.
- Because they died heroically.
- Because of their bravery. ✓
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- Which of the following means the 'complete loss or absence of hope'?
- Optimism
- Idealism
- Despair ✓
- Futile
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Exit quiz
- Which of the following are connotations of the word 'pearl'?
- Valuable ✓
- Worthless
- Beautiful ✓
- Ugly
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- What is a simile?
- Comparison where something is said to be something else.
- Comparison using like or as. ✓
- Giving human qualities to non-human objects.
- Pause in a line of poetry.
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- What is the definition of a pair of lines that rhyme?
- Rhyming couplet ✓
- Sonnet
- Stanza
- Irregular rhyme scheme
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- A sense of doom is defined as having a sense of ______.
- death ✓
- optimism
- hope
- unhappiness
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- 'Without value or significance' is the definition of which of the following words?
- Hollow ✓
- Despair
- Pessimism
- Alien
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- Why might Naidu end 'The Gift of India' by referring to the soldiers as 'sons'?
- To emphasise their bravery.
- To emphasise their humanity. ✓
- To suggest that they didn't really fight in the war.
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Lesson Details
Key learning points
- The language shows the hollowness of victory.
- The use of similes shows the value of the soldiers.
- Structure emphasises the inevitability of the soldiers' deaths.
Common misconception
That you cannot analyse words in structural analysis.
Analysis of where certain words appear in a poem is a valuable structural analysis.
Keywords
Alien - In this context, alien means belonging to a foreign country.
Hollow - Hollow means without real significance or value.
Fragility - Fragility means the quality of being delicate or vulnerable.
Inevitable - Inevitable means that something was certain to happen.
Doom - Doom means death, destruction, or some other terrible fate.
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