What figure of speech is used in the following line from For Don M?

dry like steel, their branches dry like wire

Which of the following lines from the poem For Don M implies that black South Africans suffered a spiritual death under apartheid?

A key feature of Shakespearean sonnets is the use of iambic pentameter.

Which of the following statements best explains the personification in the lines below?

‘Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come’

Refer to the following lines from On the Move by Thom Gunn. 

‘On motorcycles, up the road, they come:

Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,

Until the distance throws them forth, their hum

Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.’

What figure of speech is used in the underlined section?

Which of the following lines from Sonnet 116 uses iambic pentameter?

Present a prepared speech on one of the topics. Your speech must be between 3 - 5 minutes in length. Before you begin your speech, make sure to clearly state which topic you have chosen. Please download the prepared reading text by clicking here.

In ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, how does the description of the bird’s song strengthen the extended metaphor? Choose two answers.