1. What did the ants do when the absent-minded hunter sat on their hill?
2. Bring out the humor in the stanza.
3. Why did the hunter use a lot of words and language to explain the ant-bite?
4. What does ‘deep magenta tint’ refer to?
5. How was the hunter’s reaction to the ant-bite different from the lion’s mauling?
6. Why was the hunter’s narration of the presence of the magenta tint unfit for print?
Answer these questions from the poem Lions and Ants by Walt Mason
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Answer:
1. What did the ants do when the absent-minded hunter sat on their hill?
2. Bring out the humor in the stanza.
3. Why did the hunter use a lot of words and language to explain the ant-bite?
4. What does ‘deep magenta tint’ refer to?
5. How was the hunter’s reaction to the ant-bite different from the lion’s mauling?
6. Why was the hunter’s narration of the presence of the magenta tint unfit for print?
Answer these questions from the poem Lions and Ants by Walt Mason
Answer:
1. When the absent-minded hunter sat on their hill, a million of ants bit him and you should have seen him dance.
2. The hunter was absent-minded in the stanza.
3. The hunter used a lot of words and languages because he was in extreme pain and was angry on the ants.
4. 'deep magenta tint' referred to the language the hunter used that was unfit to print.
5. The hunter's reaction to the ant-bite was different from lion's mauling as the hunter was famous after the lion's mauling and blessed the lion that camped upon his fame, but the hunter used a lot of language of a deep magenta tint and apostrophized the insects in a style unfit to print.
6. The hunter's narration of the presence of the magenta tint unfit for print as the hunter apostrophized in the style unfit to print.