Following (Leaving Cert English): Quizzes
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What are the three distinct settings in 'Following'?
What are the three distinct settings in 'Following'?
Fair, bog, library
What technique is used when the poem opens with 'So'?
What technique is used when the poem opens with 'So'?
In media res
How is the fair setting described in Stanza 1?
How is the fair setting described in Stanza 1?
Harsh, masculine environment
How does the speaker recognise her father at the fair?
How does the speaker recognise her father at the fair?
Through clothing details
What do bogs represent in Irish culture, according to the note?
What do bogs represent in Irish culture, according to the note?
Liminal spaces where past is preserved
What appears in the bog in Stanza 2?
What appears in the bog in Stanza 2?
Corpse in white habit
What disturbing images appear in the bog section?
What disturbing images appear in the bog section?
Hands dragging needles, half-choked heads
What does whiskey in two glasses symbolise in Stanza 3?
What does whiskey in two glasses symbolise in Stanza 3?
Equality between father and daughter
What does the blood-stained linen square symbolise?
What does the blood-stained linen square symbolise?
Love, sacrifice, emotional connection
How does the father-daughter relationship evolve?
How does the father-daughter relationship evolve?
From child following to adult equality
Why does Ní Chuilleanáin use present tense narration?
Why does Ní Chuilleanáin use present tense narration?
Creates urgency and immediacy
What effect do fragmented body parts create?
What effect do fragmented body parts create?
Surreal, nightmarish quality
What was Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin's profession?
What was Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin's profession?
Professor of Irish Lit at UCC
In which poem does the father escape death as a young man in 1921?
In which poem does the father escape death as a young man in 1921?
On Lacking the Killer Instinct
The title 'Following' means what kind of action?
The title 'Following' means what kind of action?
Keeping up behind, not losing sight of
What three locations form the poem's arc?
What three locations form the poem's arc?
Country fair, haunted bog, father's library
'Beasts packed solid as books' does what for the poem's structure?
'Beasts packed solid as books' does what for the poem's structure?
Links the fair to the library
What sound device creates the bog stanza's unsettling atmosphere?
What sound device creates the bog stanza's unsettling atmosphere?
Sibilance
The 'half-choked heads' in the bog echo what biblical event?
The 'half-choked heads' in the bog echo what biblical event?
Pharaoh drowning firstborn Hebrew boys
The 'three drops of heart's blood on white linen' comes from which fairy tale?
The 'three drops of heart's blood on white linen' comes from which fairy tale?
Grimms' 'The Goose Girl'
The word 'bindings' at the poem's end puns on what two meanings?
The word 'bindings' at the poem's end puns on what two meanings?
Book-bindings & family-bindings
The poem's three-tier structure echoes which mythic patterns?
The poem's three-tier structure echoes which mythic patterns?
Orpheus, Dante, Irish otherworld journeys