Don't bite your nails, Amanda!
Don't hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight, Amanda!
(There is a languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me
- a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
●How many voices are there in the lines?
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Answers
Answer:
(e) Poem: Amanda.
Poet: Robin Klein.
STANZA 2
(There is a languid, emerald sea,
where the sole inhabitant is me —
a mermaid, drifting blissfully.)
Questions :
(a) Who do these lines refer to?
(b) How is the sea?
(c) Who is the sole inhabitant of the sea?
(d) Why is this stanza bracketed?
(e) What does the person refer to want to do?
Answers :
(a) These lines refer to a little girl Amanda.
(b) The sea is peaceful and beautiful.
(c) Amanda is the mermaid who is the sole inhabitant of the green sea.
(d) This second stanza is bracketed because this is the daydream of Amanda.
(e) Amanda wants to drift blissfully with the soft-moving waves of the sea.Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!
Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!
Stop that slouching and sit up straight,
Amanda!
Questions :
(a) What is Amanda doing to her nails?
(b) What does she do to her shoulders?
(c) What is her sitting posture?
(d) How should Amanda sit?
(e) Name the poem and the poet.
Answers :
(a) She is biting her nails.
(b) She hunches her shoulders.
(c) She is sitting in a slouching posture.
(d) Amanda should sit straight.
There Are Three Voices In The Line.
Amanda's Mother, the Sea and the Mermaid are the Speakers.
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