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My Hero by Willis Hall

The poem describes the speaker's father as very brave and not afraid of anything. It lists things that most people are afraid of like the dark, horror movies, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and spiders. However, the father is not afraid of any of these things. The last stanza contrasts the father's bravery with the fact that when a spider is in the bath, he makes the mother remove it instead of doing it himself.

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My Hero by Willis Hall

The poem describes the speaker's father as very brave and not afraid of anything. It lists things that most people are afraid of like the dark, horror movies, ghosts, monsters, vampires, and spiders. However, the father is not afraid of any of these things. The last stanza contrasts the father's bravery with the fact that when a spider is in the bath, he makes the mother remove it instead of doing it himself.

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Question 5

Read the poem below carefully. Then, answer questions (a) - (d).

My Hero by Willis Hall


My dads as brave as a dad can be,
I rate him Number One,
He`s not afraid of the dead of night,
Or anything under the sun.
Hes not afraid of a late-night film,
Full of horrors on the telly,
And is he afraid of skeletons?
Not dad, not on your Nelly!
Hes not afraid of meeting ghosts,
Hed even smile and greet 'em,
And things that scare most dads the most,
My dad could just defeat em.
He's not afraid of vampires,
Or a wolf-man comes to get him,
If Frankensteins monster knocked on our door,
He wouldnt let that upset him.
My dad's as brave as a dad can be,
And he's always ready to prove it.
So why when a spiders in the bath,
Does Mum have to come and remove it?
a) In stanza 1, which phrase refers to darkness? [1 mark]

b) From stanza 2, what kind of late-night movies frighten most people? [1


mark]

c) Based on stanza 4, who created a monster? [1 mark]

d) If you see your friend frightened of something, how would you help him/

her? [2 marks]

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