Starter quiz
- In 'Winter Swans', the couple are ...
- grieving after the death of a loved one.
- happy because they have just found out they're expecting a baby.
- on a first date.
- experiencing trouble in their relationship. ✓
- spending time together before their wedding the next day.
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- In the middle of 'Winter Swans', Sheers uses a __________ to indicate a shift in the emotional tone (mood).
- ellipsis
- anecdote
- volta ✓
- allegory
- rhetorical question
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- Which of these is an example of personification?
- The trees towered over the tiny fox.
- The trees stretched their bony branches towards the sun. ✓
- Crunchy orange leaves fluttered down from the trees like confetti.
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- Complete the missing word in this quote from 'Winter Swans': "we skirted the lake, silent and apart, until the ______ came and stopped us"
- 'swans' ✓
- How many stanzas does 'Winter Swans' have?
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7 ✓
- 8
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- Which language technique occurs in the final stanza of the poem 'Winter Swans'? ("and folded one over the other, like a pair of wings settling after flight")
- a simile ✓
- a metaphor
- personification
- alliteration
- a rhetorical question
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