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questions on the cold within

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Answered by rashi61
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READ THE EXTRACT AND ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:-

1)Six humans trapped------------------------------------ The fire his stick of birch.

QUESTIONS:-

(i)Which figure of speech is used in the line "In bleak and bitter cold"?What special significance do the adjectives bleak and bitter have?

(ii)Who are the people referred to in the above extract?Why do they need logs?

(iii)State how the following line is connected with the theme of the poem:
THEIR DYING FIRE IN NEED OF LOGS.

(iv)What does the first man hold back and why?

(v)What character traits would you associate with "the first man" and "the next man"?Why?

2)The third one sat in a --------------------------------Was a chance to spite the white.

QUESTIONS:-

(i)What is meant by "tattered clothes"?What does this expression symbolise?Why does the "third one"gives his coat a hitch?

(ii)The "third one" doesn't want to use his log to warm the rich.why?

(iii)What thoughts preoccupy the rich man's mind?What does it say about him?

(iv)What prejudice the black man has and for whom?

(v)Explain the following lines:
FOR ALL HE SAW IN HIS STICK OF WOOD
WAS A CHANCE TO SPITE THE WHITE


3)The last man of this-----------------------------------They died from the cold within.


(i) Explain the phrase "forlorn group".Which figure of speech is used here?

(ii)What game is the poet referring to while mentioning the last man of the group?

(iii)What "proof of human sin" is being referred to here? Explain.

(iv)The poet says that the characters "died from the cold within".What does he mean?

(v)What message is the poet trying to convey in the poem?How does he succeed in carrying out his task?

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Answered by angelinjefersha
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Answer:metaphor

Explanation:because the climate is described as bitter cold.

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