The Voice of the Rain MCQ

The similarity between rain and music is indicated by the words-

• gently and serious …

• water falling and strangely

• ‘soft falling’ and song …

• regional music and softly …

Who are the speakers in the poem?

• The poet and the rain

• The poet and rain

• The rain and the earth

• The rain and the earth

Which figure of speech is used to give life to the rain?

• Metaphor

• Personification

• Transferred Epithet

• Simile

To what does Whitman compare the formation of rain and why?

• Rain to a song

• Rain to the music

• Rain to the voice

• Rain to the heart of poet

What is the poem of the earth?

• Fruit

• Song

• flowers

• shower

How is the shower formed?

• Gently

• vaguely

• Sweetly

• beautifully

What was strange to tell?

• answering the question by the shower

• asking a question to the shower

• both a and b

• none of the above

Where does the shower come back to?

• the earth

• the cloud

• the sea

• All of the above

Find the figure of speech in the line- 'I am the poem of the earth.'

• Personification

• Simile

• Extended Metaphor

• Metaphor

Who is the poet of the poem 'The Voice of the Rain'?

• Shirley Toulson

• Ted Hughes

• Gordon Cook

• Walt Whitman