Professional Documents
Culture Documents
persona
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 Fighters 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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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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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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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
2. What are the things that the grandchild considers as things that you must have in life?
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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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8. In this poem, the grandparents feels that problems such as traffic jams and destruction
12. The grandchild thinks that life was _____ before modern inventions.
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Form 3:
A Fighters Lines by Marzuki Ali.
Answer the following questions.
1. The poem, The Fighters 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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4. What does the persona say about the fight for independence?
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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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8. The persona uses the words net of deceit indicate that the
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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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