
Analysing the poem 'No Problem' by Benjamin Zephaniah
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- Q1What is a dub poet?someone who performs their poetry aloud to reggae musicsomeone who performs their poetry with a live orchestrasomeone who writes only political poetrysomeone who writes poetry set in a foreign country30s
- Q2What is a dialect?vocabulary and speech patterns specific to a certain demographic or social classvocabulary and speech patterns specific to a certain period of historyvocabulary and speech patterns specific to a certain region or areavocabulary and speech patterns specific to an idividual30s
- Q3What is a refrain?a stanza with only four linesa phrase or line recurring at intervals throughout the poema question that doesn't require an answerwhen consecutive lines of a poem begin with the same words30s
- Q4What is alliteration?the repetition of sounds at the start of words found close togetherfigure of speech equating two unlike things to emphasise their shared qualitieswords imitating sounds they representgiving human traits to non-human entities30s
- Q5What are stereotypes?widely held, oversimplified and often inaccurate beliefs about a group of peoplean idea or a story that is circulated but not officially confirmedunjust treatment of people based on characteristics such as age, gender or raceexaggerated representation of someone or something, often for satirical purposes30s
- Q6The tone of Zephaniah's 'No Problem' is ...initially sad but shifts to a nostalgic tone towards the end.initially playful but shifts to a serious tone towards the end.initially nostalgic but shifts to a sad tone towards the end.initially serious but shifts to a playful tone towards the end.30s