Starter quiz
- The opening sentence of a paragraph that sets out the writer's intentions and the purpose of the paragraph is called a ______ sentence.
- 'topic' ✓
- Which of the following can you analyse as part of structural analysis?
- similes
- personification
- enjambment ✓
- caesuras ✓
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- The ______ of a poem refers to the type of poem it is.
- 'form' ✓
- Which of the following is a simile?
- You are my sunshine
- You shine like the sun ✓
- The sun whispered to the wind
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- Which of the following is the definition of futile?
- pointless ✓
- important
- useful
- fruitful
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- Which of the following words means 'evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret'?
- dehumanisation
- pleasant
- poignant ✓
- unaffecting
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Exit quiz
- Which Empire was India a part of during WW1?
- Ottoman
- British ✓
- Austro-Hungarian
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- Roughly how many soldiers from India fought in WW1?
- 100,000
- 1.5 million ✓
- 10 million
- 10,000
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- Which of the following did Sarojini Naidu want to achieve through her activism?
- India's independence from Britain. ✓
- Increase Britain's control of India.
- Increase Britain's investment in India.
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- Which of the following are synonyms for the word grief?
- heartbreak ✓
- melancholic ✓
- contentment
- peace
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- In Naidu's 'The Gift of India', India is personified as a ______.
- 'mother' ✓
- Which of the following means 'a period of political control by a more powerful country over another country'?
- colonial ✓
- democracy
- meritocracy
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Key learning points
- Naidu personifies India as a mother to humanise the soldiers and emphaise that they are someone's son.
- Arguably, Naidu uses the poem as a request for Britain to remember the sacrifice of the soldiers.
- The poem is a tribute to the memory of more than one million soldiers from undivided India who had served in WW1.
Common misconception
That only soldiers from England fought for Britain in WW1.
Soldiers from all over the British Empire fought for Britain.
Keywords
Despair - Despair means the complete loss or absence of hope.
Grief - Grief means intense sorrow.
Colonial - Colonial refers to a period of political control by a more powerful country over another country.
Activism - Activism means the policy or action of using vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change.
Sacrifice - Sacrifice means to give up something valued for the sake of other considerations.
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