1 Which word is an example of onomatopoeia? Kill Squash Glitter Fortnight 2 Which of the following best describes the poem's speaker? Curious Brilliant Egomaniacal Nihilistic 3 What does the speaker metaphorically compare to "another language"? Unemployment paperwork A voice on the radio An overcast day A dead fly 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB ABA ABCBC It has no rhyme scheme 5 What does Shakespeare symbolize? The dead The speaker's brilliance Violence in art and poetry The speaker's separateness and exclusion 6 Which of the following is an example of dramatic irony? The speaker believes he is a genius, while readers know he isn't The speaker believes he can avoid killing, but readers know he cannot The poem's unexpectedly tender tone in its last lines The speaker's sarcastic attitude to his victims 7 The sentence "the budgie is panicking" is an example of what? Hyperbole Foreshadowing Enjambment Onomatopoeia 8 What is the poem's setting? Chicago in a futuristic era Late twentieth-century Britain 1970s America Victorian London 9 What caused this poem to become the subject of controversy in 2008? Its quotation in an Academy-Award winning film Its removal from a school textbook Its role inspiring a wave of violent crime Its censoring on social media sites 10 Which best describes the speaker's motive for killing? A desire for recognition A curiosity about extreme acts An interest in breaking taboos A desire for power 11 What does the word "bog" mean in the work's context? Toilet Local pub Soft, muddy ground Small town 12 To what does the speaker compare his signature? A fingerprint An autograph A tattoo A bloodstain 13 What does the word "fortnight" mean? The night after next Eight hours Last night Two weeks 14 Which of the following occurs in the work's final line? A new rhyme scheme A shift to the second person A switch from fantasy to reality A reference to a real-life murder 15 Which social phenomenon does Duffy delve into in this poem? The effect of industrial waste on mental functioning The "loneliness epidemic" of the 2010s The archetype of the serial killer Factory farming and animal cruelty 16 Which of the following appears prominently in the line "a sort of grey boredom stirring in the streets"? Simile Alliteration Understatement Allusion 17 How does the speaker demonstrate cruelty throughout the poem? By berating himself By killing animals By insulting the reader He doesn't—he mistakenly believes himself to be cruel 18 The line "I see that it is good" is a reference to which of the following? Homer's Iliad Shakespeare's Twelfth Night Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury The Biblical creation story 19 What or who is the speaker's first victim? The cat His best friend The radio host A fly 20 What is the poem's meter throughout? It has no regular meter Spondaic monometer Trochaic hexameter Iambic pentameter 21 What is the poem's point-of-view and tense? First person singular, past tense First person singular, present tense First person plural, present tense Third person singular, past tense 22 Which type of stanzas does the poem use? Quatrains Tercets Sestets Quintains 23 Which of the following words does the speaker use to describe his own breath? Talent Fire Medicine Clouds 24 Which of the following does NOT describe the poem's tone? Grandiose Resentful Measured Bitter 25 What does the word "budgie" mean? A prank played by children A boring job A type of bird A sibling