The Great Personal Privation (Leaving Cert English): Quizzes
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Who is the author of 'The Great Personal Privation'?
Who is the author of 'The Great Personal Privation'?
Tracy K. Smith
What unique technique does Smith use in this poem?
What unique technique does Smith use in this poem?
Repurposes 1849 slave owner letters
What is the form of 'The Great Personal Privation'?
What is the form of 'The Great Personal Privation'?
Free verse
How many stanzas does the poem contain?
How many stanzas does the poem contain?
Five
What year are the slave owner letters from?
What year are the slave owner letters from?
1849
Who wrote the letter that opens the poem?
Who wrote the letter that opens the poem?
Mary Jones to Elizabeth Maxwell
What phrase is repeated at both the beginning and end of the poem?
What phrase is repeated at both the beginning and end of the poem?
Many, many, very many times
What literary device does the final stanza use to represent separated families?
What literary device does the final stanza use to represent separated families?
Fragmentation with cut-off sentences
In section two, what does the speaker say they would prefer?
In section two, what does the speaker say they would prefer?
Death over continued enslavement
Approximately how many people were displaced by the domestic slave trade mentioned?
Approximately how many people were displaced by the domestic slave trade mentioned?
1.2 million
What is the poem's central message?
What is the poem's central message?
Damage from separating families
What do the varying stanza lengths mirror?
What do the varying stanza lengths mirror?
Disrupted lives & broken families