Storm on the Island - Seamus Heaney

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The first 8 letters of the title spell out STORMONT which is code for what?
Northern Irish seat of government
1 of 10
Fill in the gap (opening line): "We are _______: we build our houses squat"
prepared
2 of 10
Fill in the gap: "listen to the thing you fear Forgetting that it _______ your house too"
pummels
3 of 10
Fill in the gap: "You might think that the _____ is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs But no:"
sea
4 of 10
Finish the quote: "spits like a tamed cat...
turned savage"
5 of 10
Fill in the gap: "We are bombarded with the ______ air."
empty
6 of 10
Finish the quote (final line): "Strange, it is a huge nothing that ...
we fear"
7 of 10
"bombarded", "strafes", "salvo", "dives" create what kind of semantic field? - suggesting nature is deadly
Military attack
8 of 10
Nature is extremely _________ in this poem
powerful
9 of 10
"We just sit tight while wind dives And strafes invisibly" - the quote suggests nature is...
unpredictable
10 of 10

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Card 2

Front

Fill in the gap (opening line): "We are _______: we build our houses squat"

Back

prepared

Card 3

Front

Fill in the gap: "listen to the thing you fear Forgetting that it _______ your house too"

Back

Preview of the front of card 3

Card 4

Front

Fill in the gap: "You might think that the _____ is company, Exploding comfortably down on the cliffs But no:"

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Finish the quote: "spits like a tamed cat...

Back

Preview of the front of card 5
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