SAMPLE QUESTIONS OH, I WISH I’D LOOKED AFTER ME TEETH CBSE – CLASS – IX

2 (Two marks)

1) Tell us the structure
of the poem.

2) How is poetic license
in use in the poem?

3) What is the message of
the poem?

4) Name some sweets which
are named here? Bring out the irony of the word ‘sweet’.

5) Explain – “My
conscience gets horribly pricked”

6) The poet wants to
expiate something. What is it and how?

7) Acquaint us with the
refrain of the poem?

8) What do you understand
by ‘reckonin’ and beckonin ?

9) What troubles of teeth
did the poet say here?

10) How could the poet avoid
the tooth decay?

1 (one) marks

1) “oh, I wish I’d looked
after me teeth

And spotted the perils
beneath”

i) What do you
understand by perils?

ii) Why did he get perils?

iii) Which poetic
device is used in the fourth line?

2) “To- pass up gob
stoppers’

i) What is
gobstoppers?

ii) What do you
understand by ‘fillin’?

iii) What is ‘me
choppers’?

3) “my conscience gets
horribly pricked”

i) What is
‘liquorice’?

ii) Which tone do you
get in the quoted line?

iii) Which poetic
devise is use in line three?

4) “ Didn’t seem worth the
time – I could bite!’

i) Explain the line in
brief.

ii) What do you
understand by ‘Pokin and fussin’?

iii) Does the above
line convey dislike for tooth care? – how?

5) ‘I’d have thrown all me
sherbet away”

i) Name three oral –
trouble mentioned in this stanza.

ii) Which poetic
device is used in line two?

iii) When would the
poet throw all me sherbet away?

6) “Two amalgam, “he’ll
say, “for in there.”

i) Why is the word
amalgam mis-spelt?

ii) Write down the
lines which show the use of the poetic device of ‘Anaphora’.

iii) What do you
understand by molars’?

7) “How I laughed at my
mother’s false teeth.”

i) Why did the
speaker laugh at her mother’s false teeth?

ii) What is
the irony in the quoted line?

iii) “It’s me
they are beckonin” – who are ‘they’ here?

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