Question

1. He holds him with his skinny hands,”There was a ship,” quoth he.

(a) Who does ‘He’ refer to in the above extract?

(b) What do we know about the speaker’s feelings?

(c) Why is his hand called skinny>

(d) ‘him’ in the first line refers to….

2. It is an ancient Mariner,

And he stoppeth one of thee.

‘By thy long greybeard and glittering eye,

Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?

(a) Who did the Ancient Mariner stop?

(b) How did the Mariner stop the wedding guest?

(c) Why has the ‘eye’ of the mariner referred to as glittering?

(d) Why had the wedding guest stopped the mariner?

3 .The bridegroom’s doors are opened wide,

And I am next of kin;

The guests are met, the feast is set:

May’st hear the merry din.’

(a)What did the wedding guest tell the Mariner?

(b)What is the meaning of ‘merry din’?

(c)Why did the Mariner not let the wedding guest go?

(d)Why was the wedding guest eager to go?

4.Higher and Higher every day,

Till over the mast at noon-’

The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,

For he heard the loud bassoon.

(a)What came higher and higher every day?

(b)Why did the wedding guest beat his breast?

(c)What is the meaning of bassoon?

(d)Why couldn’t the wedding guest go to the marriage ceremony?

5 .And now the storm-blast came, and he

Was tyrannous and strong:

He struck with his o’ertaking wings,

And chased us south along.

(a)What is the poetic device used here?

(b)What struck the mariners?

(c)Why has the storm been called tyrannous?

(d)What has the storm been compared to in the third line?

6 .The ice was here, the ice was there,

The ice was all around:

It cracked and growled, and roared and howled

Like noises in a swound!

(a)Why does the poet say ‘The ice was all around’?

(b)Which poetic device is used here?

(c)What does it mean by noises in a swound?

(d)What is ‘It’ in the third line?

7 .And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he

Was tyrannous and strong:

He struck with his O’ertaking wings,

And chased us south along.

(a)Which figure of speech is used in line 1?

(b)What happened to the mariner’s ship?

(c)Why has the storm been called tyrannous?

(d)Where did the storm-blast take the ship to?

8 .At length did cross an albatross,

Through the fog it came;

As if it had been a Christian soul,

We hailed it in God’s name.

(a)Where had the albatross come from?

(b)Why did the mariners hail it in the God’s name?

(c)What is the meaning of ‘hailed’?

(d)Which figure of speech is used in this line? ‘As if it had been a Christian soul’?

9 .Ah! Well a-day! What evil looks

Had I from old and young!

Instead of the cross, the Albatross

About my neck was hung.

(a)What is the superlative form of ‘higher’?

(b)Why was the Albatross hung around the Mariner’s neck?

(c)What is a cross?

(d)Who was held responsible for the misery of the sailors?

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Answer 1

1.a)He is refered to The Ancient Mariner.

b)from this line we knew about the speaker that he don't wanted to stay with him but forcefully he had to.

c)His hand called skinny because it was too thin.

d)him refered to the man that came to attempt the wedding but he had to listen to the mariner's story.

2.a)There were three men came to attempt wedding and he stopped one of them.

b)He stopped that men by his glittering eyes.

c)because it seems to have some hypnotic effect.

d)Mariner stopped wedding guest because to tell him his story.

3.a)Wedding guest told that bride room had opened and she came and he is one of her close relative.
b)Merry dim means the musical instrument that is played in wedding.
c)The Mariner not let him go because he wanted to tell him his story.
d)guest was egger to go because he wanted to attempt the wedding.

4.a)
b)because he wanted to go to attempt wedding but he can't go and he had to listen to the mariner's story.
c)it is an musical instrument.
d)because he was stopped by Ancient Mariner by his glittering eyes.

5.

Answer 2

by the way your first question came in the board exam today.

I think you had prepared for it?.