Question

B) Read the following stanza and answer the following questions :- (03)

A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,

Began to complain when he found that,

At home,

His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.

not a crumb to be found

on the snow covered ground

not a flower could he see

not a leaf on a tree.

Oh! what will become, says the cricket, of me?

1. What does the expression ‘sunny months' mean?

2. Why is ‘not a crumb to be found'?

3. What does the last line of this stanza suggest?​

Answer 1

Explanation:

1.sunny months means summer season

2.not a crumb was to be found because winter has

come

3.it suggests that what will happen to the cricket as no food is left

Answer 2

Answer:

The word sunny in the stanza has been used as