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

Pick out the lines that contain Imagery (a picture created in the mind by using words) of the following people:
(i) Schoolboy (2nd stage)
(ii) Soldier (4th stage)

What does the poet mean by "They bring me tokens of myself?

Pick out an example of Repetition from the extract:

Match the words given in Table A with their meanings in Table B:

A	B
(1) whine	(a) an offence against religious ormoral law
(2) sin	(b) complain in an annoying way
(3) evince	(c) mental illness
(4) mania	(d) failing to take proper care
(5) negligent	(e) show

Complete the table:

Match the phrases in table A with lines from the extract given in table B:

'A' (Phrases)	'B' (Lines)
(1) Toil hard	(a) If you want a thing bad enough...
(2) Get rid of all	(b) Fret for it ...
(3) Worry a lot about it	(c) To work day and night for it
(4) Need desperately	(d) Lose all your terror of

Choose the correct alternative from the following:
(a) '_______________' is an example of Paradox from the poem.
(i) And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature.
(ii) He would adore my gifts instead of me.
(iii) Let him be rich and weary.
(iv) When God first made man.
(b) '______________' is an example of Alliteration from the poem.
(i) made a way
(II) bottom lay
(ii) repining restlessness
(iv) keep the rest
(c) _________________ is an example of Inversion from the poem.
(i) Contract into a span.
(ii) So both should losers be.
(iii) Bestow this jewel.
(iv) And rest in Nature.

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

Write down the rhyming words from the stanzas for the following:
(1) fight (2) clash

Complete the table of rhyming worda :

Words	Rhyming words from the poem	Rhyming words of your own
Ear
Within
Man
Split