Question

a. Extract Question : And being faint with fasting, For the day was almost done, He asked her, from her store of cakes, To give him a single one. 1. Who is ‘He’ in the passage ? 2. Why was he fainting ? 3. What is meant by ‘the day was almost done’ ?

Answer 1

Answer:

1.He refers to saint peter in the line

2.He was about to faint as he was preaching and fasting

3.the day almost had done means the day is finished or is about to finish

Explanation:

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Answer 2

The given extract is from the poem A legend of the northland.

• He refers to saint peter in the line.
• He was about to faint as he was preaching and fasting.
• The day almost done means the day is finished or is about to finish.
• In the poem, a little girl is described as having received punishment from Saint Peter for refusing to give him any of the cakes that she had cooked.
• In the tale, Saint Peter journeys across the globe before arriving at the tiny woman's hut.
• He was starving and exhausted. To get a piece of cake, he begged the woman.
• As a ballad poetry, this one tells a story in condensed form. A ballad also has four lines in every paragraph. It also has 16 stanzas in total, each of which tells a tale.
• The central idea of A Legend of the Northland is that even a saint can be irritated by greed and selfishness.

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