SAMPLE QUESTIONS ENGLISH-POETRY CBSE – CLASS – IX – ENGLISH

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A)        Read
the following extract and answer the following questions
            1.
“I’ll meet the raging of skies                     (3)
                   But not an angry father”.
                        a)
– who is the speaker?
                        b)
– Which figures of speech do you find in the above lines?
                        c)
– Why is the father angry?
            2.  Is second childishness and mere oblivion,                                 (3)
                 Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans
everything.
                        a)
– What do you understand by ‘sans’?
                        b)
In which stage the lines fall?
                        c)
Which stage is there before this?
            3.
“Two amalgam,” he’ll say, “for in there”                        (3)
                        a)
– What is amalgam?
                        b)-
Why is the word ‘amalgum’ misspelt?
                        c)
– What is the rhyme – scheme of the stanza?
            4.
“The voice of thunder declares my arrival;                    (3)
                  The rainbow announces y departure.”
                        a)
– Which poetic device is in use in the above lines?
                        b)
– Name the poet of the poem.
                        c)
– When does rainbow appear?
B)         Answer
the following questions in about 30 to 40 words each.   4×2=8
            1)
“All can hear, but only
                  The sensitive can understand” – Explain.
            2)
Comment on the refrain of the poem – “oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth”
            3)
Narrate in your own words the fourth stage of “the Seven Ages”
            4)
“Nature overpowered human” – Explain the comment in the light of the poem “Lord
Uillin’s Daughter.” 


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