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SECTION B LITERATURE COMPONENTS

POEM

PMR Paper 2: Section B

Poems – open-ended questions (2 questions – 3 marks)

Students must learn and understand the element of:

persona

meaning (literal and figurative)

tone/mood

themes

moral lessons/messages

PMR Tips:

1. Answers could be lifted from the extract or could be paraphrased.

2. For “yes/no” question, marks are given for a relevant reason which is related to the

poem.

Lower Secondary Form 1 to Form 3 Poems

1. The River – Valerie Bloom

2. Mr. Nobody – Unknown author

3. I Wonder – Jeannie Kirby

4. Heir Conditioning – M SHANmughalingam

5. A Fighter’s Lines – Marzuki Ali

6. Leisure – William Henry Davies

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Form 2: I Wonder by Jeannie Kirby.

Answer the following questions.

1. How does the child describe the wind?

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2. What does the child want to know about the moon?

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3. What are the words the child uses to describe clouds?

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4. What does the child wonder about ‘Dad’?

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5. What can you learn from this poem?

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6. What would the child like to know about birds?

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7. In the poem, the child thinks that trees are

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8. The child thinks that when the moon is not round, the missing bit is

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9. The child thinks that _____ lights the stars and paints the rainbows.

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10. The child asks her father what makes _____ flash.

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11. When the stars disappear, the child thinks that

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12. What are the things mentioned in the poem?

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13. What are the words that describe the child in the poem?

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14. The line ‘Who taught the birds to build a nest’ shows that the poet

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15. All the questions that the poet asks are about

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16. The poet thinks that her father

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Form 2:Heir Conditioning by M SHANmughalingam

Answer the following questions.

1. Look at the first line from the first stanza, where the grandchild says ‘did you breathe

…’ This shows that the grandchild thinks that

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2. What are the things that the grandchild considers as things that you must have in life?

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3. Do you agree with this statement? Why?

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4. From the first three lines of the poem, we know that the grandchild

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5. In the poem, it shows that the grandchild would find it difficult to live

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6. Why do you think the grandparent says that nature fears the grandchild?

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7. Do you agree with the above statement? Why?

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The grandparent points out that there was no destruction of forests when he was young.

The grandchild is used to modern-day inventions.

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8. In this poem, the grandparents feels that problems such as traffic jams and destruction

of streams are caused by

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9. The grandchild thinks that in the old days, people

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10. In the first two lines of the stanza, the grandparent

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11. This poem is in the form of

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12. The grandchild thinks that life was _____ before modern inventions.

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13. A long time ago, people had respect for

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Form 3:A Fighter’s Lines by Marzuki Ali.

Answer the following questions.

1. The poem, The Fighter’s Lines, is written by

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2. In stanza 1, the persona had made a name for himself in history for his role in the

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3. In stanza 1, we know that the persona is

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4. What does the persona say about the fight for independence?

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5. What is the best word to describe the persona’s physical handicap?

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6. In stanza 2, which words show that the persona is alert and aware of current social

problems?

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7. What do you think the phrase ‘remnants my crippled years’ mean?

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8. The persona uses the words ‘ net of deceit’ indicate that the

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9. Who did the persona directed his battle cry to?

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10. Why are the young people referred to as ‘heirs of our freedom’?

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11. The persona wants the young people to do the following except

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Form 3:Leisure by William Henry Davies.

Answer the following questions.

1. What does the cows and sheep do in the fields?

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2. Based on the poem, write down one expression that is compatible (well-matched)

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3. According to the poem, what are the things that beauty does

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4. The beautiful things in nature are

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5. The word ‘boughs’ refer to

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6. When can streams be full of stars?

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7. The persona is advising us to do the following except

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8. When beauty moves her feet, she is

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9. The expression ‘stand and stare’ is example of the poetic device of

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10. The main theme in the poem Leisure is

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