A3: Activity based on Poetic Device

Question 11 Mark

Divide the class into two groups. One group should offer points in favour of (views) and the other against (counterviews) the topic : 'The life of an animal is better than that of a human being. Later use the points to express your own views/counterviews in paragraph format in your notebook.

Answer

View	Counterview
Animals are placid and self-contained.	Animals cannot improve their lot in life.
Animals do not try to set targets or achleve goals. Humans do.	By setting targets, goals are achieved.
Animals do not complain about their condition.	It is only by complaining that one comes to know how things can be improved.
Animals are self-satisfled with their condition, whatever it be.	Humans continuously try to improve their living conditions.
Animals do not worship other things or animals or persons as gods.	Animals have no idea about. God. Humans acknowledge a divine Creator.
Animals do not worry about possessions or earthly matters.	Animals have no care about the future of this planet. Humans do.

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Question 21 Mark

Give one example of Rhetorical Question from the poem. Explain.

Answer

Did I pass that way huge times ago and negligently drop them?The poet uses a question to assert that we human beings unmindfully discarded the good qualities that we possessed somewhere along the line.

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Question 31 Mark

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

Answer

By They bring me tokens of myself the poet means that animals possess and express visible signs of qualities such as innocence and simplicity that he himself (i.e. all human beings) must have once possessed.

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Question 41 Mark

Identify the figures of speech in the followinglines:
(a) I stand and look at them long and long.
(b) They do not sweat and whine about their condition.
(c) They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.
(d).. not one is demented with the mania of owning things.
(e) They bring me tokens of myself. - Paradox
(f) No one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. - Hyperbole

Answer

- Repetition
- Tautology
- Alliteration
- hyperbole
- Paradox
- Hyperbole

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Question 51 Mark

Find out lines from the poem that are examples of the following figures of speech:

Figures of Speech	Lines
Repetition
Alliteration
Hyperbole

Answer

Figures of Speech	Lines
Repetition	I stand and look at them long and long They do not sweat and whine They do not lie awake They do not make Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented ...
Alliteration	Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented ... dots they evince them plainly in their possession.
Hyperbole	... Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.

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Question 61 Mark

Find adjectives from the poem which refer to positive and negative thinking:
(1) placid
(2) demented
(3) unhappy
(4) self-contained
(5) dissatisfied.
(4) negligently (adverb)

Answer

Positive	Negative
(1) placid	(1) dissatisfied
(2) self-contained	(2) demented
	(3) unhappy
	(4) negligently (adverb)

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Question 71 Mark

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

Answer

(1) whine complain in an annoying way
(2) sin - an offence against religious or moral law
(3) evince - show
(4) mania- mental illness
(5) negligent – failing to take proper care

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English A3: Activity based on Poetic Device

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