Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
............On their slag heap, these children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones.
All of their time and space are a foggy slum.
So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.
(a) What does ‘slag heap’ refer to?
(b) What do these children wear on their eyes?
(c) What other example shows their poverty?
(d) Name the figure of speech used in the last line.
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The extract is from the poem ‘An Elementary School Classroom in a slum’. by Stephen Sender.
(a) The slag heap is referred to as the bloodless bodies of the poor children as the children are very skinny.
(b) The children wear spectacles on their eyes that look like broken pieces of bottles on stones.
(c) The example that shows their poverty is that they live in narrow and crowded lanes. They often play on the heap of waste very happily and even their bones are peeping out of their skin.
(d) Simile is the figure of speech used. A simile involves the comparison of one thing with the other thing of different kind by using words like “as” and “like.
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