Question

Sometimes I think Grand Central is growing like a tree, pushing out new corridors

and staircases like roots. There’s probably a long tunnel that nobody knows

about feeling its way under the city right now, on its way to Times Square,

and maybe another to Central Park. And maybe. because for so many

people through the years Grand Central has been an exit, a way of escape maybe that’s how

the tunnel I got into. But I never told my psychiatrist friend about that idea.

(a) Why did he think that Grand Central was growing like a tree?

(i) because it had a lot of trees in it

(ii) because it had a lot of corridors and staircases

(iii) because it had a lot of trees aroundit

(iv) because it had a continuously been under construction

(b) Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence ‘pushing out new corridors and

staircases like roots’.

(i) metaphor (ii) imagery

(iii) simile (iv) personification

(c) Why did anybody not know about the long tunnel?

(i) it is a secret tunnel under the city (ii) it is kept hidden from public

(iii) it is a kind of magical tunnel (iv) because nobody went to that part

(d) What were the speaker’s feelings when he described the Grand Central?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(a) as its corridors and staircases were like pushing out new roots in the soil

Answer 2

Answer:

a) (ii) because it had a lot of corridors and staircases

b) simile

c) (iii) it is a kind of magical tunnel

d) He was fascinated

Explanation:

a) He thought that the city was growing like a tree. Because, it had a lot of corridors and staircases.

b) In the sentence the author compared two different entities. So, the figure of speech is 'simile'

d) He was fascinated while describing about the city looking at its giant constructions etc.,

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