1) What is the name of the language of the "mother tongue" Sujata Batt uses in her poem "Search for my Tongue" a) Geriata b) Gujarati c) Singlese d) Chinese e) Geriatric 2) Which of the following is an example of imagery used in "Search for my Tongue" a) "it grows back a stump of a shoot" b) "a sword splits it in two" c) ""the cat swipes my tongue" d) "my mother has no tongue" e) ""my tongue grows petals during spring" 3) What do we call the style that Tom Leonard's "Unrelated Incidents" is written in? a) Bog-standard English b) The King's Speech c) Non-standard English d) It's all Greek to me... e) Formal 4) Which type of Scottish accent is represented by the colloquial language used in "Unrelated Incidents"? a) Haggish b) Mancunian c) Thanetian d) Glaswegian e) Dundeer 5) Why is "Unrelated Incidents" structured the way it is? a) Fewer words for students to study b) To remind the reader of a news reader's auto cue c) Tom Leonard is a lazy writer d) Because there're so many spelling mistakes e) Because Leonard hates punctuation 6) Which two famous people does John Agard refer to in his poem "Half-Caste"? a) Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie b) Van Gough and Mozart c) Katie Perry and Russell Brand d) Tchaikovsky and Dali e) picasso and tchaikovsky 7) What dialect does Agard use in the poem "Half-caste"? a) Barbadian b) Nigerian c) Caribbean d) French e) Tropical 8) Derek Walcott's poem "Love After Love" using the language: "Give wine. Give bread" which has what kind of connotations? a) Culinary b) Religious c) Educational d) Romantic e) Defensive 9) Which of the following best describes the theme of Walcott's poem "Love After Love"? a) Long lasting romantic relationships b) Astroloical c) New homes d) Self-discovery e) Scientific 10) What is the poetic term we use to describe these quotations from " Imitiaz Dharker's "This Room": "crash", "bang" and "clang"? a) alliteration b) simile c) metaphor d) cymbal e) onomatopoeia 11) Which as an example of a quotation using personification in the poem "This Room"? a) "the walls screamed" b) "the bed knelt" c) "The bed is lifting out of its nightmares" d) "No one is looking for the door" e) "the fan fluttered in the air" 12) The repeated rhetorical question: "What business of mine is it/ So long they don't take the yam/ From my savouring mouth?" is an example of a..? a) refrain b) stanza c) reminder d) curious poet e) broken record 13) Which is a good example of a quotation where Moniza Alvi uses a simile to appeal to the reader's senses in her poem "Presents from my Aunts in Pakistan?" a) "as regal as a peacock's feather" b) "like a cow bell ringing in my ears" c) "glistening like an orange split open" d) "as angry as a camel" e) "as beautiful as the flowers at Kew gardens" 14) Which narrative voice(s) does Grace Nichols use in "Hurricane Hits..."? a) Second person b) First person c) Third Person d) Third and first person e) Second and third person 15) "Love After Love" is written in a rhythmic way that complements patterns of speech ("dee dah, dee dah"), what is this technique called? a) Metamorphic b) Thoracic c) Iambic d) Trochaic e) Archaic

Poetry from Diff Cultures Cluster 2 Quiz

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