HORNBILL POEMS GR. 11

What Oxymoron literary device was used in the poem?

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  Terribly transient
  
  
  

• Through their

• Both wry

• Laboured ease

What Epithet literary device was used in the poem?

• Terribly transient
  
  
  

• Through their

• Both wry

• Laboured ease

What does the poet feel in the last phase?

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  pain and grief
  
  

• B. happy and nostalgic

• C. sad and nostalgic

• pain and nostalgic

When did the death-like tree become alive?

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  in the month of March
  
  
  

• by the arrival monsoon season

• by the arrival of the Goldfinch bird

• by the arrival of lizard

What role does the tree play for the Goldfinch bird?

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  As a shelter
  
  
  

• as a supporter

• as a means to feed her family

• as a resting place

What does the rain reply to the poet’s question ‘Who are you’?

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  she is rain
  
  
  

• she is poem of earth

• she is rain from mountains

• she is poem of mountains

Why does the rain tell the poet that she cannot be touched?

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  because she is water
  
  
  

• because she rises in the form of water vapour

• because she is in the form of clouds

• None of the above

What did the poet realise about adults?

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  That they are mature
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• They have to earn money

• They are not what they seem to be

• They are cunning

What is the poem ‘Father to Son’ about?

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  Unsettling relationship between father and son
  
  
  

• father’s old age

• son comparing him to his father

• father talking to son about his childhood

What happened when he tried to build a relationship with him in his childhood?

• he was successful
  
  
  

• his efforts were in vain

• he was half-way successful

• None of the above