Question

Then sleek as a lizard, and alert, and abrupt,

She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up

Of chitterings, and a tremor of wings, and trillings—

The whole tree trembles and thrills.

Answer the following.

a‘She’ in the second line is …………..

i.Goldfinch ii.Woodpecker

b) The ‘machine’ referred to in the second line is the nest of the goldfinch where....... feed and flutter.

i.Chicks ii.Laburnum Tree

c)) The whole tree trembles and trills because of lizard.

i.True ii.False

d) Find the figure of speech in Line 1

i.Simile ii.Metaphor​

Answer 1

Answer:

a) The goldfinch is the 'she' in the poem

b) The machine are the 'chicken

c) False

d) The poetic device is 'simile'

Answer 2

Answer:

a) The Goldfinch is the "she" in the poem.

b) The Goldfinch where "chicks" feed and flutter.

c) False

d) the figure of speech in line 1 is "Simile".