'You will know when you get there'

How many stanzas are there in this poem?

Match the following

• the sea floor shudders

• Stanza 3

• nobody else goes down

• Stanza 4

• half celestial

• Stanza 10

• vapours thickening and thinning

• Stanza 1

• the excrescent moon

• Stanza 11

The most common poetic technique used in this poem is:

• enjambment

• caesura

• rhyme

• imagery

Match the following

• the sea floor shudders

• metaphor

• gathers the gold against it

• alliteration

• having an arrangement with the tide

• compound adjective

• surge-black

• sibilance

• the excrescent moon sponging off the last of it

• personification

What word means similar to "shining?

• glinting

• celestial

• gold

• campfirelit

Reorder the following

• a heavy wave

• a door slams

• the sea-floor shudders

• a door

How many instances of repetition are there in the poem?

• 5

• 2

• 3

• 4

How many examples of caesura are used in the poem?

• 19

• 20

• 16

• 22

Which is the odd one out? (Think word classes)

• season

• hesitancy

• arrangement

• steep

Which are the odd ones out?

• wet-metalled

• excrescent

• campfirelit

• surge-black