Poetry Quotes

Question 1

Dulce et decorum est : imagery (2)

Answer 1

1. And watch the white eyes writhing in his face

2. As under a green sea I saw him drowning

Question 2

Dulce et decorum est: Personification (2)

Answer 2

1. innocent tongues

2. disappointed shells

Question 3

Dulce: Similes (2)

Answer 3

1. like a devil’s sick of sin

2. floundering like a man in fire or lime

Question 4

Dulce: Repetition (1)

Answer 4

GAS! Gas!

Question 5

Dulce: Rhyme (2)

Answer 5

1. Sludge, trudge

2. Fumbling, stumbling

Question 6

Dulce : Shows the message

Answer 6

My friend you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory

Question 7

What has happened to Lulu? : Alliteration (2)

Answer 7

1. late last night

2. flapping free

Question 8

Dulce : Alliteration (2)

Answer 8

1. Men marched

2. Knock-kneed

Question 9

Lulu: Onomatopoeia

Answer 9

Roar

Question 10

Lulu: repetition

Answer 10

What has happened to Lulu, mother?

What has happened to Lu?

Question 11

Lulu: Enjambment

Answer 11

There’s nothing in her bed but an old rag doll

And by its side a shoe.

Question 12

Lulu: Rhyme (2)

Answer 12

1. free, be

2. pain, rain

Question 13

Lulu: Imagery (1)

Answer 13

And only a circle on the dusty shelf

Where her money- box used to be?

Question 14

Timothy Winters: Simile (2)

Answer 14

1. With eyes as wide as a football pool.

2. Ears like bombs and teeth like splinters,

Question 15

Winters: Metaphor (2)

Answer 15

1. A blitz of a boy is Timothy Winters

2. He licks the patterns off his plate

Question 16

Winters: Imagery (1)

Answer 16

His clothes are enough to scare a crow

Question 17

Winters: Rhyme (2)

Answer 17

1. crow, blow

2. word, arithmetic-bird

Question 18

Winters: Message

Answer 18

And the loudest response in the room is when

Timothy Winters roars ‘Amen!’

Question 19

If: Rhyme(2)

Answer 19

1. fools, tools

2. spoken, broken

Question 20

If: Personification (1)

Answer 20

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

Question 21

If: Repetition (2)

Answer 21

The words ‘if’ and ‘you’

Question 22

If: Alliteration (1)

Answer 22

sixty seconds

Question 23

If: Assonance (1)

Answer 23

don’t look too good, nor talk too wise

Question 24

Cloths of heaven: Message

Answer 24

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

Question 25

Cloths: Repetition (4)

Answer 25

Repeats the words: (cloths, light, feet, dreams) in the pattern clclfdfd at the end of each line

Question 26

Cloths: Imagery(1)

Answer 26

Enwrought with golden and silver light

Question 27

Cloths: Assonance (1)

Answer 27

Of night and light and the half-light

Question 28

Cloths: Alliteration (1)

Answer 28

The dim and the dark cloths

Question 29

Cloths: Metaphor(1)

Answer 29

I have spread my dreams under your feet