Question

Read the following stanza and the questions given below it. Choose the correct answer. (each

carries 1 mark) [04]

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea.

Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe.

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn.

Questions:

5. The journey of the rain from the earth to the sky is _______________.

a. intangible b. impulsive

c. unchangeable d. poetic

6. ‘Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same’. This

line suggests that _____________.

a. the rain ascends the heaven vaguely

b. the rain changes the formation of heaven

c. the rain changes in its form but remains the same

d. the rain though vague in its form changes everything

7. Identify the figures of speech in the line: ‘I am the Poem of Earth.’

a. Oxymoron b. Simile c. Hyperbole d. Metaphor

8. The rain gives life to the _________.

a. earth b. seeds c. sea d. globe

SECTION B

Answer the following questions in about four to five sentences each. (each carries 2 marks) [04Read the following stanza and the questions given below it. Choose the correct answer. (each

carries 1 mark) [04]

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain.

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea.

Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same.

I descend to lave the droughts, atomies, dust-layers of the globe.

And all that in them without me were seeds only, latent, unborn.

Questions:

5. The journey of the rain from the earth to the sky is _______________.

a. intangible b. impulsive

c. unchangeable d. poetic

6. ‘Upward to heaven, whence, vaguely form’d, altogether changed, and yet the same’. This

line suggests that _____________.

a. the rain ascends the heaven vaguely

b. the rain changes the formation of heaven

c. the rain changes in its form but remains the same

d. the rain though vague in its form changes everything

7. Identify the figures of speech in the line: ‘I am the Poem of Earth.’

a. Oxymoron b. Simile c. Hyperbole d. Metaphor

8. The rain gives life to the _________.

a. earth b. seeds c. sea d. globe​

Answer 1

Answer :

Section B

5. a. intangible

6. c. the rain changes in its form but remains the same

7. d. Metaphor

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