Question

Read the poem given below and answer the question that follow: (4M)

The Banyan tree was three times as tall as our house

Its trunk had a circumference of fifty feet

Its scraggly aerial roots fellto the ground

From fifty feet or more so first they cut the branches

Sawing them off for seven days and the he was used

Insects and birds began to leave the tree

And then they came to its massive trunk

Fifty men with axes chopped and chopped

The great tree revealed its rings twohundred years

Questions:

1. What revealed the age of the banyan tree?

2. How would you save the natural habitat of wildlife?

3. Pick out any two lines from the extract showing pictorial quality of human action?

4. Name the figure of speech in the following line:​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. The age of tree is two hundred years

Answer 2

Answer:

1. the rings of the giant tree in the trunk revealed the age.

2. we would save the natural habitats of wildlife by not cutting the trees because they provide shelter and food.

3 . 1 ) sawing them off for seven days and the heap was huge

2) fifty men with axes chopped and chopped

4. alliteration, repetition