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Year 8 Poetry and Colonization Quiz

Test your knowledge with our engaging Year 8 quiz focused on poetry and colonization. This quiz includes a variety of questions that cover key concepts and terms crucial for understanding these subjects.

10 multiple choice questions
Learn about poetry, themes, and colonization
Perfect for students looking to recap their knowledge

10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by CuriousWriter57

What is a Slam (or spoken word) Poem?

Poetry intended for performance

A poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five, traditionally evoking images of the natural world.

Poetry without a rhyme scheme or specific structure

Poetry that is set to music

What is emphasis in a poem

Resemblance of sound between syllables of nearby words

Special importance or significance given to something

A poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead

The view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.

What is colonization?

Peacefully inhabiting a new place with the permission of its lawful owners

The thing a group of ants live in

The action or process of settling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area.

Official written statement made under oath before a judge, notary public or other person with legal authority

What is a treaty?

That little thing on the end of a shoelace

Something you give your pet when they've been good

To annul or repeal a law or pass legislation that contradicts the prior law

A formal written agreement entered into by sovereign states as a sort of contract or agreement

What is sovereignty?

A gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling.

The right of an independent nation to govern itself without outside interference

The creation of a new country

Protection for Indigenous rights

What does it mean to annotate a poem?

An addition to a document.

To write an essay about it

Analyzing and understanding a literary work, often by highlighting or writing notes.

A series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics.

What is a motif?

A painting or other work of art executed directly on a wall.

A dominant or recurring idea in an artistic work.

Visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work

A document or item produced in court for the purpose of becoming part of the evidence in a proceeding.

What does Identity mean?

The way individuals think of themselves, which forms their idea of who they are.

A card you carry in your back pocket with your birthday on it

To associate someone or something closely with; regard as having strong links with

Action or intervention producing a particular effect.

What is a theme

Lord of the Rings

A big, central idea that comes up throughout the text.

The best way to ruin a wedding

A word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language

What is tone in poetry?

The particular quality of brightness, deepness, or hue of a shade of a colour.

To give greater strength or firmness to a muscle).

The emotions and attitudes expressed in a poem; eg, it can be happy, sad, exciting, angry, etc.

A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.

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