Which figure of speech is used in starvation and sorrow
Answers
1. A silly young cricket accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.
(a) What was the routine of the cricket?
(b) Name the seasons mentioned here.
Answer:
(a) The routine of the cricket was to sing and dance all through the warm sunny months.
(b) The seasons mentioned here are summer and spring.
2. Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
(a) Who does he refer to?
(b) Why was his cupboard empty?
Answer:
(a) ‘He’ refers to the cricket.
(b) His cupboard was empty because the cricket didn’t lay aside anything for winter.
3. Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground;
(a) What couldn’t he find on the ground?
(b) Why was the ground covered with snow?
Answer:
(a) He couldn’t find any piece of bread on the ground.
(b) The ground was covered with snow because it was winter season.
4. At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
(a) What made the cricket bold?
(b) Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
Answer:
(a) Starvation and famine made the cricket bold.
(b) The cricket dripped and trembled as it was wet and cold.
5. Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
(a) Whom did the cricket want to meet? Why?
(b) What would keep him alive?
Answer:
(a) The cricket wanted to meet the miserly ant for food and shelter.
(b) A mouthful of grain and shelter from rain would keep him alive.
6. But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend.
(a) Why do you think ants neither borrow nor lend?
(b) Who says these lines to whom?
Answer:
(a) Ants neither borrow nor lend because they work hard and plan for their future.
(b) The ant says these lines to the cricket.
7. “Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
(a) Who does ‘I refer to?
(b) What was the nature of the cricket? How do you know?
Answer:
(a) I refers to the cricket.
(b) The cricket was lazy and silly. We know this, since it had not saved anything for its future.
8. Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,
(a) The ant refused to help the cricket. Why?
(b) Explain the second line.
Answer:
(a) The ant refused to help the cricket because the cricket was lazy and silly. It was not a hard worker.
(b) The ant opened its door and sent away the poor little cricket without giving him anything.
9. He wished only to borrow;
He’d repay it tomorrow;
(a) Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines.
(b) Give more examples of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer:
(a) “Borrow – tomorrow” are the rhyming words in the above lines.
(b) The other examples of rhyming words are sing-spring; home – come; found – ground, see – tree, bold-cold; ant – grant; rain – grain; friend – lend; light – might and. wicket – cricket.
10. My heart was so light
that I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
“You sang, Sir, you say”?
(a) Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines.
Answer:
The rhyming scheme is “a a b b”.
Poetic Comprehension – Additional
1. Not a flower could he see,
Not a leaf on a tree.
“Oh! what will become,” says cricket, of me?”
(a) Which season is mentioned here?
(b) Why is the cricket sad?
Answer:
(a) The winter season is mentioned here.
(b) The cricket is sad because there was nothing found to eat or shelter to rest.
2. Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend,
But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend.
(a) What does the ant say to the cricket?
(b) What rule do the ants follow?
Answer:
(a) The ant says that it is his servant and friend.
(b) They never lend or borrow.
3. But tell me, dear cricket,
Did you lay anything by
When the weather was warm?”
(a) What did the ant ask the cricket?
(b) Which season is specified here?
Answer:
(a) The ant questioned the cricket whether it laid anything aside when the weather was warm.
(b) Summer season is specified here.
4. “You sang, Sir, you say?
Go then”, says the ant, “and dance the winter away”.
(a) To whom does the ant say this?
(b) What does this mean, “and dance the counter away?”
(c) Was the ant angry with the cricket?
Answer:
(a) The ant says this to the cricket.
(b) Dance and sing once again all throughout the winter season.
(c) Yes, the ant was angry with the cricket.
Poetic Devices – Additional
1. Not a flower could he see,
Not a leaf on a tree.
“Oh! what will become,” says cricket, of me?”
(a) Pick out the rhyming words.
Answer:
“see – tree” are the rhyming words.
2. Says the ant to the cricket, “I’m your servant and friend,
But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend.
(a) Pick out the words in alliteration.
Answer:
“the, the”; “says, servant”; are words in alliteration.
3. When the weather was warm?
(a) Pick out the alliterated words in this line.
Answer:
when, weather, was, warm are the alliterated words.
Answer:
but we ants never barrow ; we ants never lend