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Exercise 1

1. Shirt
2. Skirt
3. Smile
4. Holds
5. Death
6. True
7. Hunched
8. Soup
9. Awful
10. Unthinkable
11. Three
12. Living

Exercise 2
1. false
2. dull
3. remembered
4. Beautiful
Exercise 3
1. True
2. False
3. True
4. False
5. False
6. True
Exercise 4
1. She was three years old
2. The line, her soup forgot to boil
3. The word unthinkable
4. In the first stanza, the grandmother is strong and healthy in the photograph while in the second
stanza the grandmother is older and ill.
5. The poem is about how a photograph immortalises a person. This is illustrated in the poem
where in real life, the grandmother is dead but with the photograph, she will always be
remembered by the persona.
6. The poem teaches us that we must spend time with our loved ones because when they pass
away, all that will be left are the memories of the time spent together.
Exercise 5 & 6
-Accept all correct and acceptable answers-