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Farewell To Barn and Stack and Tree Exercises 1

The document appears to be a worksheet containing questions about the poem "Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree" by A.E. Houseman. The questions probe various literary techniques used in the poem such as anaphora, personification, and assonance. They also ask about the narration and perspective of the poem, with the overall narration determined to be first person. The questions analyze the narrator's state of mind and reason for bidding farewell repeatedly without seeming to leave.

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Farewell To Barn and Stack and Tree Exercises 1

The document appears to be a worksheet containing questions about the poem "Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree" by A.E. Houseman. The questions probe various literary techniques used in the poem such as anaphora, personification, and assonance. They also ask about the narration and perspective of the poem, with the overall narration determined to be first person. The questions analyze the narrator's state of mind and reason for bidding farewell repeatedly without seeming to leave.

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Farewell to Barn and Stack and Tree by: A.E.

Houseman
Worksheet

1. Explain the narration of the poem


Terence is the narrator and he speaks in indirect speech

The murderer is the narrator and he speaks in direct speech

Maurice is the narrator and he speaks in direct speech

The murderer's words are narrated by Terence in direct speech

2. Why does the narrator bids farewell to inanimate objects?


Because he is traumatized by the negative experience

Because he wants to escape the the society

because he is guilty of his crime

All of the above

3. What is the technique used in the 1st line of the 1st stanza?
Syndetic style of enumeration

Asyndetic style of enumeration

Personification

Metaphor

4. When the same word repeats at the beginning of the consecutive lines, it is
called,
Apostrophe

Anastrophe

Anaphora

Anthropomorphism
5. What is the poetic technique used in the 3rd line of the 1st stanza
Anaphora

Anastrophe

Metaphor

Personification

6. What is the effect of the anastrophe in the 3rd line of the 1st stanza
It emphasizes the negative effect of the situation on "me"

It emphasizes the negative effect of the situation on Terence

There is no specific effect

It changes the syntax of the sentence

7. Why does the narrator ask Terence to look at him for the last time?
Because the narrator is going to kill him

Because the narrator is going to commit suicide

Because the narrator is going to runaway

Because Terence is going to leave

8. What is the literary technique in which vowel sounds repeat in nearby words?
what is the effect achieved by the use of that technique to the poem?
Consonance, Generates a mournful tone

Assonance, generates an exuberant tone

Assonance, creates a despondent tone

Alliteration, creates a sad tone

9. The narrator bids farewell several times, but he doesn't seem to be going
anywhere. What is indicated by his behaviour?
Anger

Hesitation

Pain
Confusion
10. What is the overall narration of the poem?
First person narration

Second person narration

Third person limited narration

Third person omniscient narration

1. “And here’s a bloody hand to shake,


And oh, man, here’s good-bye;”

a) From where are these lines taken? Who wrote them?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
b) Who speak these words?
……………………………………………………………………………………..
c) To whom?
…………………………………………………………………………………………………………
d) Why does he speak these lines?
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

2. “She had two sons at rising day, tonight she’ll be alone”

a) From where are these lines taken? Who is the writer?

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

b) Who speaks these words? ………………………………………………………………………………….

c) Who is referred to as ‘she’? …………………………………………………………………………………

d) What do you feel about this situation?

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