The Chimney Sweeper (E)

Question 1

innocence or experience

Answer 1

experience

Question 2

semantic field of

Answer 2

sadness

Question 3

the meter is

Answer 3

ballad meter

Question 4

the two poems

Answer 4

have the same name

Question 5

“‘weep! ‘weep!”

Answer 5

same as innocence
too young to say sweep
what children would say to let people know that they were chimney sweepers
shows their misery

Question 6

the adult is

Answer 6

the upper class

Question 7

“where is my father and mother? say!”

Answer 7

direct speech

Question 8

“they are both gone up to church to pray.”

Answer 8

dead
neglectful
church before family
religion comes first

Question 9

Rhyme scheme

Answer 9

AABB

Question 10

rhyming scheme change in stanzas 2/3

Answer 10

CDCD

Question 11

children would go up chimneys

Answer 11

in the nude

Question 12

the church

Answer 12

separates family’s

Question 13

show covers everything

Answer 13

including the children’s misery

Question 14

who has done the child wrong

Answer 14

parents
master sweep
society

Question 15

heaven is supposed to be a place of happiness but

Answer 15

the children are providing happiness to adults

Question 16

breakdown

Answer 16

in rhyme at the end of the poem

Question 17

the child is being robbed

Answer 17

of its childhood

Question 18

how many days off a year does a chimney sweeper get

Answer 18

1

Question 19

lots of

Answer 19

references to other poems

Question 20

Blake uses

Answer 20

the same lexis

Question 21

the boy is being punished for being

Answer 21

young and free