Year 8

Language and Themes in 'The Chimney Sweeper'

Year 8

Language and Themes in 'The Chimney Sweeper'

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will learn about the life of a young chimney sweep in the 18th and 19th centuries, before exploring Blake's use of language and themes in his poem 'The Chimney Sweeper'.

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5 Questions

Q1.
What type of poet was William Blake?
Change
Love
Revolution
Correct answer: Romantic
Q2.
Fill in the missing word: A forcible overthrow of a ruler or government to create ________.
Correct answer: change
danger
happiness
movement
Q3.
What was one outcome of the Industrial Revolution?
Everyone hated it
Less children working
Correct answer: More products created at a faster speed
No change to the landscape
Q4.
Blake liked the Industrial Revolution.
Correct answer: False
True
Q5.
How did Blake feel about the Industrial Revolution?
Correct answer: He compared it to the devil
He did not care about it
He liked that it increased child labour
He thought it was a positive change

10 Questions

Q1.
Which key theme does this symbolise?
An image in a quiz
Correct answer: Childhood
Imagination
Nature
Oppression
Revolution
Q2.
Which key theme does this symbolise?
An image in a quiz
Childhood
Imagination
Nature
Correct answer: Oppression
Revolution
Q3.
Fill in the missing word: Injustice is an _______ treatment of people where their rights are ignored
appalling
opposite
unbelievable
Correct answer: unfair
Q4.
Chimney sweepers begin work as a young as ...
3
Correct answer: 4
5
6
Q5.
True or false: Child chimney sweeps only had to work in the morning.
Correct answer: False
True
Q6.
The poem is told from the perspective of ...
A master sweeper
Correct answer: An unnamed chimney sweeper
Tom Dacre
Tom Dacre's dad
Q7.
'Like a lamb's back' is an example of a ...
metaphor
Correct answer: simile
Q8.
'Coffins of black' is an example of a ...
Correct answer: metaphor
simile
Q9.
True or False: Tom Dacre dies at the end of the poem.
Correct answer: False
True
Q10.
Fill in the missing word: A revolution is a forcible overthrow of a ruler or government to create _______.
Correct answer: change
hope
money
violence