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Very short answers, about 30-40 words each.
15.
Who is the speaker of the poem ‘Canvas of Soil’?
Speaker
How to answer:
Identify the speaker and give one detail from the poem that supports your identification.
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Answer:
The speaker is a
gardener
— someone who tills the soil and plants seeds — or a keen observer who sees the garden through a gardener’s loving, artistic eyes, admiring how plots of earth turn into living paintings.
16.
What is the rhyme scheme of the poem? Give one example of a rhyming pair.
Rhyme Scheme
See Lines 1-2
How to answer:
Name the scheme with its letters, then quote one rhyming pair exactly as it appears.
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Answer:
The poem follows the
AABB
rhyme scheme — the lines rhyme in couplets, two by two. For example, in stanza one ‘deep’ rhymes with ‘seep’, and ‘true’ rhymes with ‘hue’.
17.
Pick out one example of personification from the poem.
Personification
See Lines 5-6
How to answer:
Quote the line, name the device, and state which human action is given to a non-human thing.
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Answer:
In ‘Dancing in the morning light’, the blossoms are personified — they are given the human action of dancing. (Another example: the gardeners’ dreams ‘seep’ into the soil as if they were alive.)
18.
What does the phrase ‘vibrant hue’ mean?
Word Meaning
See Lines 3-4
How to answer:
Give the meaning of both words, then connect the phrase to what the seeds are waiting for.
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Answer:
‘Vibrant hue’ means a
bright, lively colour
. The seeds wait through the cold for spring, when they will burst into brilliant, energetic colours — the vivid greens, reds and blues of the blooming garden.
