10. Explain what the author means by the phrases/ sentences given below. What
the effect created by the use of the italicized words?
a. The station was one in name only.
b. Baldeo groped for his lamp ... then fumbled about ...
C. The hills overhung the main line threateningly.
d. Baldeo prided himself in his skill with the axe.
e. Baldeo sat down at the mouth of the tunnel and began to nod.
f. Flight was useless. The tiger would be more sure-footed than Baldeo.
g. The tiger expected to bowl over this puny man.
h. Baldeo was conscious of a searing pain.
i. ... blackness and night closed in over him.
j. Tembu and his family were plunged in grief for two days.
Answers
a. It was a station by name. But no trains stopped in that station. The station was not given importance at all.
b. Baldeo worked during nights. He was drowsy but he had to go to work. So he would look for his lamp with his hands with his drowsy eyes. And then he would find his matches in a dizzy way moving around his lamp.
c. The hills along the side increased the eeriness by their nature of existence. They were huge, silent and frightening.
d. He encouraged himself by saying to himself that he is proud to be a Tribal. He was very sure with his outstanding skill in using his axe.
e. Baldeo was waiting for the mail train at the entrance of the tunnel. He was falling asleep. He sat down there and start dozing off. He began to not his head as he was sleeping.
f. In the dark, obviously, it is the tiger who would win over a fight. Because in every way, the tiger is sure about his victory. Baldeo alone is much weaker now.
g. The tiger wants to eat up and feast on this small and weak man.
h. Baldeo was attacked and he suffered an intense pain on his back.
i. Soon, he could only see blackness. The night was against him and it closed him. It was dead.
j. As Baldeo lost his life, his family was sunk into a deep depression for two days.
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