Starter quiz
- What is the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather' about?
- someone exploring the grandfather's attic after their death
- someone reminiscing about climbing up their grandfather's body as a child ✓
- someone climbing a mountain with their grandfather
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- How does the speaker feel at the beginning of the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather'?
- excited but nervous
- safe and secure ✓
- worried for their safety
- exhausted but triumphant
- sad and lonely
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- A ______ is when you compare two things using 'like' or 'as'.
- 'simile' ✓
- Which examples below are a metaphors?
- The teacher was like a dragon.
- The teacher was a dragon. ✓
- The teacher shouted as loudly as a lion.
- The teacher was mean.
- The teacher roared at the class, her eyes blazing with fury. ✓
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- Which of the quotations from the middle of the poem 'Climbing My Grandfather' show the speaker is becoming worried about the risks of their climb?
- "old brogues, dusty and cracked"
- "the glassy ridge of a scar"
- "I rest for while in the shade, not looking down" ✓
- "the slow pulse of his good heart"
- "I change direction, traverse along his belt"
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- When a writer repeatedly draws on the same metaphorical comparison throughout a text, we call it an ...
- repetition.
- alliterative phrase.
- extended metaphor. ✓
- extended noun phrase.
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