Question

Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow. How beautiful and graceful are his shapes! He glides through the water away from the stroke, O let him go over the water into the reeds to hide without hurt.

Option 1

(i)-The poet of the extract is..

Robert Frost

Gieve Patel

WWE Ross

Subramania Bharati

'He' in the extract refers to...

The poet

The poet's friend

The man

The snake

(iii) The line "How beautiful and graceful are his shapes! " indicates that the poet..

Loves nature

Finds beauty in the creature

Wants the creature to be safe

Finds beauty in even the smallest of things

(iv) What is happening in the given extract?

The snake is playing

The snake is resting

People are trying to kill the snake

People are trying to catch the snake

(v) The literary device used in the given lines is...

Personification

Imagery

Enjambment

Metaphor

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Answer 1

Answer:

i) robert frost

ii) the snake

iii) wants creature to be safe

iv) the snake is playing

v) imagery

Answer 2

After reading the extract provided the questions asked will be answered as under:

• This extract has been taken from the poem  The Snake Trying which is written by William Wrightson Eustace Ross and so the correct option will be WWE Ross.
• The snake in the extract is very beautiful and graceful as he glides through the water and goes into the reeds and so the ' He ' in the extract refers to the snake which will be the correct option.
• The poet loves the way in which the snake moves and so he describes the snake's features as how beautiful and graceful his shapes are and so the answer will be the poet finds beauty in the creature.
• The people around are trying to kill the snake and so the snake goes into the reeds to hide without being hurt and this is what is happening in the extract.
• Personification will be the literary device that is used in the above extract because the poet describes the snake as he is a human being.

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