Question

Read the poem carefully. Choose the correct option.
Heredity is very strange 1
It's quite a peculiar creature
Attaching itself to you
Determining the look of every feature
The color of your eyes 5
How long you'll keep your hair
Or if you must reach for glasses
Which never seem to be there
Will your body be built like a champion
Or will you suffer from defeat 10
It decides everything about you
From your head down to your feet
I'm sure someone has said
You look just like your father
And five minutes later 15
You look just like your mother
Maybe you've even been told
You look like neither one
You see, it all depends
Which side of the family they are from 20
But ask me and I'll say
I'm just like good-ole-dad
I seem to have inherited it all
The good things and the bad.

The poet's main purpose in writing this poem seems to be ----
(1 Point)
a) to give an overview about father’s love.
b) entertain us with humorous viewpoints on 'heredity.'
c) make fun of the features which talk about his father's 'heredity.'
d) provide a way to handle troublesome comments on 'heredity.'
13.The poetic device most prominently used in the poem is _________ .
(1 Point)
a) metaphor
b) personification
c) symbolism
d) imagery
14.The word ‘determining’, in line 4, means
(1 Point)
a) limiting
b) deciding
c) utilizing
d) connecting
15."It decides everything about you" in line 11. What does 'it' collectively refer to?
(1 Point)
a) It refers to your financial status.
b) It refers to the length of your nose.
c) It refers to the inherited property.
d) It refers to the qualities acquired from parents.
16.“Attaching itself to you” in line 3 refers to ______ .
(1 Point)
a) deciding how you look.
b) deciding how you behave.
c) deciding how you are built.
d) deciding all of the above.
17.Which poetic device is used in the line ‘Will your body be built like a champion’?
(1 Point)
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) Alliteration
18.In line 20 “which side of the family they are from” – ‘they’ refers to _____
(1 Point)
a)hereditary genes
b) complexion
c) temperament
d)parents
19.What is the meaning of ‘glasses’ as used in the poem?
(1 Point)
a) laminated glass
b) drinking glass
c) spectacles
d) sunglasses
20.What is the antonym of ‘peculiar’?
(1 Point)
a) a)extraordinary
b) phenomenal
c) usual
d) unexceptional
21.The speaker agrees that he has inherited all his good and bad qualities from his ----
(1 Point)
a) Mother
b) Father
c) Uncle
d) Neither of them

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

1. provide a way to handle troublesome comments on 'heredity.'

2. personification

3. deciding

4. It refers to the qualities acquired from parents.

5. deciding all of the above.

6. Simile

7. hereditary genes

8. spectacles

9. usual