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6. What language technique is used in The Barn when it says "chilly concrete"?

  • similie
  • allieration
  • sybalance
  • onomatopea
  • pathetic fallacy

7. What is the main theme of "Digging" and "Not My Best Side"

  • the horrors of war
  • comradeship
  • chalanging sterotypes
  • feeling superior
  • growing up

8. in "Follower" what does the layout of the poem show?

  • all of the above
  • they are spread out, even scentences, like the furrows in the land that his dad is ploughing
  • they are methodical stanzas which is like the farm land
  • the enjambment (continued scentences) of the poem makes the rhyme scheme hard to follow-his dad is hard to follow

9. in "Mid-Term Break" what is "knelling"?

  • a fire alarm ringing
  • a door bell ringing
  • a funeral bell ringing
  • a school bell ringing

10. What is the main theme of all Seamus Heaney's poems?

  • growing up
  • comradeship
  • digging
  • challanging steriotypes
  • lonelyness

11. What is Miracle on St David's Day about?

  • Gillian Clarke reading poetry to st david
  • Gillian Clarke reding poetry to the insane
  • Gillian Clarke reading poetry to some daffodils
  • Seamus Heaney reading poetry to the insane