Unit 3 - 3.1 Night of the Scorpion — English STD 10 — Question

Choose the correct alternative from the following:
(a) '____________________' is an example of Synecdoche from the poem.
(i) So both should losers be.
(ii) Then beauty flowed.
(iii) 'Let us', said he, 'pour on him.'
(w) May toss him to my breast.
(b) The rhyme scheme of the extract is___________.
(i) a a b b c (ii) a b c b c
(iii) a b c c b(iv) a b a b a
(c) ______________ is an example of Pun from the poem.
(i) Rest in the bottom lay
(ii) So strength first made a way.
(lii) Having a glass of blessings...
(iv) So both should losers be.

May he sit still, they said
May your suffering decrease the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil balanced in this unreal world against the sum of good become diminished by your pain.
May the sins of your previous birth be burned away tonight, they said. May the poison purify your flesh of desire, and your spirit of ambition, they said, and they sat around on the floor with my mother in the centre. the peace of understanding on each face.
More candles, more lanterns, more neighbours more insects, and the endless rain.

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract:

The poem is entirely metaphorical. Pick out the comparison from the extract: last stage (old age)

Name and explain the figures of speech used in the following lines:
(a) His youthful hose, well-saved, a world too wide
(b) For his shrunk shank
(c) Turning again towards childish treble
(d) Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.

Write two pairs of rhyming words from the extract:

Give an example of each of the following from the extract:
(a) Tautology.
(b) Repetition.
(c) Antithesis.

Pick out examples of Alliteration from the extract.

From the poem pick out the words of old English that mean the words given below:
(1) edge -
(2) poetry -

Many images of the scorpion contrast in the opening lines of the poem. Find examples of each and add them to the columns below:

Scorpion
Timid	Dangerous
(1) Hides beneath a sack of rice
(2) Is afraid of the people and goes back

Find the figures of speech in the line: 'Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.