• ENGLISH

 

Read the following poems carefully and select the correct answer for the questions after it.

• POEM I

A bird came down the Walk

He did not know I saw

He bit an Angle Worm in halves

And ate the fellow, raw,

 

And then he drank a Dew

From a convenient Grass

And then hopped sidewise to the Wall

To let a Beetle pass

 

He glanced with rapid eyes, That hurried all abroad

They looked like frightened Beads, thought,

He stirred his velvet Head.

Like one in danger, Cautious,

I offered him a Crumb, And he unrolled his feathers, And rowed him softer Home

 

Than Oars divide the Ocean,

Too Silver for a seam,

Or Butterflies off Banks of Noon,

Leap, plashless as they swim.

1.Why has the poet called the grass ‘convenient?

A. Because the bird could see the beetle in the grass.

B. Because grass is greener on the other side.

C. Because it was easy for the bird to have dew from it.

D. Because the bird could see the worm in the grass.

2.How does the poet describe the eyes of the bird?

A. Watery like dew,

B. Like grass.

C. Like frightened beads.

D. Pearls

3. Which of the following is a metaphor?

A. A bird came down the walk.

B. He stirred his Velvet Head.

C. He bit an angle-worm in halves. D. And then hopped sideways to the wall.

D. And then hopped sideways to the wall.

4. They looked like frightened Beads-What figure of speech is found here?

A. Metaphor

B. Hyperbole

C. Personification

D. Simile

• POEM II

 

She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways

She dwelt among the untrodden ways

Beside the springs of Dove

A Maid whom there was none to praise

And very few to love

A violet by a mossy stone

Half-hidden from the eye!

Fair as a star when only one

Is shining in the sky.

She lived unknown,and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave and,oh,

The difference to me!

 

1. Write the missing word:…..,trod, trodden

 

A. treed

B. tread

C. tread

D. trede

 

2. Select the rhyme scheme of the poem from the options given:

A. aabb

B. abab

C. abcd

D. abde

 

3. “Fair as a star,when only one

Is shining in the sky.” What is the figure of speech used in this line?

 

A. metaphor

B. simile

C. hyperbole

D. personification

 

• POEM III
• Frogs

 

Frogs sit more solid than anything

In mid leap they are

Parachutists falling

In a free fall. They die on roads.

With arms across their chests and heads high.

I love frogs that sit

Like Buddha, that fall without

Parachutes, that die

Like Italian tenors

Above all I love them because

Pursued in water they never

Panic so much that they fail

To make stylish triangles

With their ballet dancer’s Legs.

1.The poet does not compare frogs to?

A. parachutist

B. budha

C.italian tenor

D.triangle

2. Choose the central poetic technique used in the poem

A. personification

B. assonance

C.metaphor

D. alliteration

 

3. What is the appropriate word for the phrase quest for in this poem?

A. panic

B. pursue

C.tenor

D. parachute

 

• ANSWER KEY

• POEM I

 

1. C. because it was easy for the bird to have dew from it.

2. C. like frightened beads

3. B. he stirred his velvet head

4. D. simile

 

• POEM II

1. B. tread

2. B. abab.

3. B. simile

 

• POEM III

1. D. triangle

2. A. personification

3. B. pursue