Question

basketful moonlight information

Answer 1

1. Complete the following sentence with the help of the poem.

(a) The child wants to sow moons of light from   city to his village.

(b) According to the child the route of his village is tough and full of snakes and scorpions  

(c) The child wants a basketful of moonlight on loan.  

(d) The child wants to light the dark route so that his father comes early.

2. Write down the describing words used for the following nouns.

small moons

dark route  

whole village (my village- here my is used as a demonstrative adjective)

early  morning  

3 The child in the poem wants to solve the problems of his village. How can the child solve them the following wishes?

Answer in your notebook.

(a) Give me moonlight basketful or two baskets full with seeds of moonlight.

Answer -    The child really wants to light the roads for the villagers and his father. The child's imagination goes everywhere, and he gets to moonlight as his solution with which he can light the road by sowing moonseeds on both the sides of the road.  

(b) I want to light the dark route so that my father returns early.

Answer -    The child loves and cares his father a lot he longs for his company but not getting it in the evening, so he wants to light the dark path which is dangerous too,which makes him think about the safety of father as well as other villagers.

4. Pick out and write the lines from the poem that prove the following

(a) Father reaches home is home late after dark.

When my father returns home  

I am asleep.

(b) Eager to hear of fairy tales from his father.

I too want to hear fairy tales

and stories from him.

(c) Remove darkness and bring light to the dark paths.

I want to light the dark route

5. Write as many as words you can using full as a suffix  

   for example basketful, bucketful,  

basketful,          powerful,         bucketful

mouthful,           handful,           helpful,

painful,              tearful,             thoughtful,

harmful,            shameful,         beautiful,

useful,               rightful,            bountiful,  

graceful,            spoonful,         boastful,  

awful

6. Pick out the examples of alliteration and repetition from the poem.

Following lines contain alliteration

give me moonlight,  

     

basketful or two baskets full,

It becomes dark on its way back

snakes and scorpions.

Neither bus nor cart piles.

Following lines contain Repetition  

small, small moons of light.