[10 marks] QUESTION TWO Read the following poem. The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt, he falls. How many stanzas are in this poem? (1) __________ What is the rhyming scheme of this poem? (1) __________ The poet is describing the eagle in this poem. Name the figurative device used to describe the eagle’s claws. (1) _____________________________ What are the eagle’s claws being compared to? (1) ________________________________________________________________ The eagle is on the top of a mountain. What clue does the poet give to show that a crag is a mountain? (1) What is the ‘azure world’? (1) ____________________________ Why is the sea wrinkled? (1) Quote the simile in the poem. (1)
[10 marks] QUESTION TWO Read the following poem. The Eagle by Alfred Tennyson He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ring’d with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt, he falls. How many stanzas are in this poem? (1) __________ What is the rhyming scheme of this poem? (1) __________ The poet is describing the eagle in this poem. Name the figurative device used to describe the eagle’s claws. (1) _____________________________ What are the eagle’s claws being compared to? (1) The eagle is on the top of a mountain. What clue does the poet give to show that a crag is a mountain? (1) What is the ‘azure world’? (1) ____________________________ Why is the sea wrinkled? (1) Quote the simile in the poem. (1) ________________________________________________________________
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