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Cards (9)

  • Dramatic monologue with regular rhyme scheme
    suggests routine loss of innocence and a cycle of suffering
  • Who is the author of "Death of a Naturalist"?
    Seamus Heaney
  • What type of verse is used in "Death of a Naturalist"?
    Unrhymed verse
  • What does the lack of a rhyme scheme in the poem suggest?
    Unpredictability of nature and change
  • What is the structure of the poem described as?
    Ambiguous pentameter
  • How is the speaker in the poem characterized?
    Breathless with excitement of childhood
  • What type of language is used in the poem to convey feelings?
    Negative language
  • What literary device is used to describe frogs in the poem?
    Simile
  • What imagery is presented in the poem regarding entrapment?
    Image of entrapment and inescapability