Question

The first day of monsoon mist.

How all the bird full silent as the mist comes climbing up the hill? Perhaps that’s what makes the

mist so melancholy; not only does it conceal the hills, it blankets them in silence too only an

hour ago the tresses were ringing with build song. But now the forest is directly still as through it

were midnight?

(i) Name the chapter from which this passage has been taken.

(ii) What does rain bring with it?

(iii) What has happened to the birds?

(iv) Which word in the passage means to ‘hide’?

(v) Why does the author call mist melancholy?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Name the chapter from which this passage has been taken. (b) What does rain bring with it? (c) What has happened to the birds? (d) Which word in the passage means to 'hide'? (e) Why does the author call mist melancholy? Answer (a) The passage has been taken from the lesson 'a short monsoon diary'

Answer 2

Perhaps that's what makes the mist so melancholy; not only does it conceal the hills, it blankets them in silence too only an hour ago the tresses were ringing with build song.