Mid-term Break TS

Question 0

Paragraph 1- This depressing poem starts off on a melancholy note as we see that the writer has been waiting around for sometime without knowing what is going on

Answer 0

Quotations used -
“Sat all morning”
“Counting bells knelling classes to a close”

Question 1

Introduction - The poem “Mid-term break” by Seamus Heaney

Answer 1

Quotations used

“Mid-term break”

Question 2

Paragraph 2 - This poem becomes extremely sad in the second stanza as the writer is greeted when he gets home to the sight of his “Father crying”

Answer 2

Quotations -
“Father crying”
“It was a hard blow”
“The baby cooed and laughed”

Question 3

Paragraph 3- We receive an odd response from the writer as even in a time like this he is embarrassed when his mother comforts him.

Answer 3

Quotations - 
"I was embarrassed" 
"Sorry for my trouble" 
"My mother held my hand" 
"Coughed out angry tearless sighs" 
"Corpse" 
"Starched and bandaged"

Question 4

Paragraph 4 - at the start of this poem the emotions of the family are public, but as the last two stanzas approach the emotions become more private.

Answer 4

Quotations - 
"Snowdrops" 
"Candles" 
"Paler now"
"Poppy bruise" 
"A four foot box" 
"Knocked him clear"
"A four foot box, a foot for every year"