DO you think you are smarter than a ten-year-old? 

Year Sixes at one Essex school have been given this question to practice their knowledge ahead of the impending Key Stage Two tests in May.

Pupils have been given the poem If by Rudyard Kipling and were asked to answer the following question: 

"The unforgiving minute" in line 29 is an example of:

  • Simile
  • Metaphor
  • Personification
  • Onomatopoeia

Have a read of the excerpt below and see if you can answer correctly...

Results will be revealed after the Easter weekend.

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!