Define what a simile is:
Define what a metaphor is:
What is the definition of Personification?
What is alliteration?
Define what plosive sounds are?
What is sibilance?
What is assonance?
What is anaphora?
Define what Juxtaposition is?
Define what an oxymoron is?
Who wrote Search for my Tongue?
What narrative voice is Search for my Tongue written in?
How many sections is the poem organised into?
What language is the second section written in?
What is the final section a translation of?
What is Search for my Tongue about?
Define what semantic field is?
What does Antithesis mean?
Define what ambiguity is?
What is an anachronism?
Example Questions
What poem did Moniza Alvi write?
What does the poem explore?
Which cultures does the speaker struggle with?
How many stanzas is the poem made of?
Which country is the speaker brought up in?
What is a cliche?
Define what hyperbole is?
What is irony?
What is litote?
Explain what culture is.
What is pathetic fallacy?
Who wrote Hurricane Hits England?
Where is Grace Nichols from?
What year did the hurricane hit England in the poem she wrote?
What is significant about the stanza length in the poem?
What could this symbolise?
What do the rhetorical questions in the poem represent?
Give an example of a simile from the poem?
Give an example of a metaphor from the poem?
Give an example of a rhetorical device from the poem?
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Who wrote Island man?
What is Island man about?
What two existences are described in the poem?
Who wrote Limbo?
Where were the writer’s ancestors from?
Why is the title ‘limbo’ ambiguous?
What is Limbo about?
Give an example of repetition from the poem?
What type of words are used to emphasis the beat of a drum?
Why is the word ‘stick’ ambiguous?
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