Starter quiz
- The qualities, beliefs, personality traits, appearance, and/or expressions that characterise a person is their...
- 'identity' ✓
- Personification is giving human __________ to non-human objects or things.
- emotions
- characteristics ✓
- feelings
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- Words that imitate the natural sound associated with their meaning is an example of...
- onomatopoeia ✓
- assonance
- a semantic field
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- A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group is the...
- 'dialect' ✓
- Irregularity in a poem could suggest...
- conformity
- non-conformity ✓
- a sense of order
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- Repetition of words or phrases in the first part of successive clauses is...
- enjambment
- anaphora ✓
- analepsis
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Exit quiz
- In Berry's 'Homing', what does she personify?
- the accent ✓
- the factory
- the relative's house
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- "Guttural" means...
- a disagreeable sound ✓
- a pleasing sound
- an impressive sound
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- A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds is called a __________ sound.
- cacophonous ✓
- euphonic
- melodic
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- Which technique does Berry use to emphasise the connection between words and place in 'Homing'?
- onomatopoeia ✓
- enjambment
- caesura
- hyperbole
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- Throughout 'Homing', Berry likely uses words from the regional dialect to...
- show its superiority
- foreground them ✓
- place them in the background
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- What is significant about the way Berry uses anaphora in 'Homing'?
- it is in every stanza
- it changes position in the stanza ✓
- it always appear as the first line of the stanza
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Key learning points
- Berry may have personified the accent in order to show the emotional connection between voice and individual.
- Berry uses vivid sound imagery such as onomatopoeia and cacophony within the poem.
- Berry’s juxtaposition of the regular stanzas yet the irregular rhyme may represent the struggle of the accent to escape.
- Arguably, the anaphora emphasises the speaker’s desire to form a connection and shared identity with the speaker.
Common misconception
Students sometimes think that poets always try to make their poems sound pleasing.
Poets may use harsh or disagreeable sounds within their poetry in order to emphasise meaning.
Keywords
Dialect - a particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group
Onomatopoeia - words that imitate the natural sound associated with their meaning
Guttural - being or marked by utterance that is strange, unpleasant, or disagreeable
Cacophonous - involving or producing a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
Anaphora - repetition of words or phrases in the first part of successive clauses
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