Question

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow :
I felt so very dependent and helpless. We are well off but what use of money when I cannot be independent."
(a) Who is ’I’ in these lines ?
(b) Why did she feel dependent?
(c) What does the phrase ’well off’ mean ?
OR
I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.’
(a) Name the literary device used in this stanza.
(b) Why did the swallows touch the surface of the brook
(c) What do ’slipping’, ’sliding’, ’glooming’ and ’glancing’ reflect

Answer 1

(a) The grandmother.
(b) She felt dependent because she was illiterate.
(c) 'Well off' means prosperous.
OR
(a) Alliteration
(b) The swallows touch the surface of the brook to catch the fish.
(c) All these words reflect the various moods and movements of the brook.