Question

A suddeness, a startlement, at a branch end

Then sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt,

She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up

Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings -

The whole tree trembles and thrills

It is the engine of her family.

She stokes it full, then flirts out to a branch-end

Showing her barred face identity mask

(i)When does the death – like tree become alive?
(a) In the month of March
(b) By the arrival of monsoon season
( c )By the arrival of Goldfinch bird
( d) Both b & c
(ii) Poetic device used in the line ‘it is the engine of her family’ is –
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c)Transferred epithet
(d)Oxymoron

(iii)How is the movement of the bird being described?
(a)Alert and agile
(b)Slow and steady
(c)Alert but slow
(d)None of the above

(iv) The trembling of the tree depicts –
(a)The tree became alive
(b)The movement of the young – ones
(c)The noise of the goldfinch
(d)The movement caused by the dusty winds​

Answer 1

Answer:

1)a

2)B

3)D

4)C..............