11:00: Baldovan (Scottish Highers English): Quizzes
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What form does Paterson use throughout the poem?
What form does Paterson use throughout the poem?
Two-line stanzas (couplets)
Which word at the start of stanza six marks the poem's crucial turning point?
Which word at the start of stanza six marks the poem's crucial turning point?
However
What literary device does Paterson use from stanza eleven, repeating 'and' at each stanza start?
What literary device does Paterson use from stanza eleven, repeating 'and' at each stanza start?
Anaphora
What does the bus journey metaphorically represent?
What does the bus journey metaphorically represent?
Transition from childhood to adulthood
How does the poem open to create immediate drama?
How does the poem open to create immediate drama?
With minor sentences
What devastating image ends the poem?
What devastating image ends the poem?
Sisters & mothers are fifty years dead
What does the adverb 'obscurely' in 'obscurely worried' suggest about the boy's anxiety?
What does the adverb 'obscurely' in 'obscurely worried' suggest about the boy's anxiety?
It's vague and undefined
What does the bus becoming a 'charred wreck' symbolize?
What does the bus becoming a 'charred wreck' symbolize?
How the safe/familiar becomes ruined
What Scots dialect phrase shows the boys' uncertainty?
What Scots dialect phrase shows the boys' uncertainty?
Are ye sure? Are ye sure?
What literary device is 'streets that suddenly forget their names'?
What literary device is 'streets that suddenly forget their names'?
Transferred epithet