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.


I. ‘She’ in the second line is …………..

a. lizard

b. goldflinch

c. sparrow

d. nightingale

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II.The ‘machine’ referred to in the second line is the nest of the goldfinch where she feeds…

a. Her chicks

b. her friends

c. Other birds

d. The laburnum tree

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III. Which figure of speech is there in ‘Sleek as a lizard’?

a. Metaphor

b. Alliteration

c. Simile

d. Pun​

Answer 1

Answer:

lizard

The 'machine' refers to the young ones of the goldfinch. They suddenly start twittering and chirruping as their mother comes to the nest to feed them.

Simile