Complete all the questions given and send to my email, undian88@yahoo.com

1. When did the people in the poem return home?
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2. What kind of a setting do you see in the poem, ‘ In the Midst of Hardship’
    by Latiff Mohidin?
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3. Describe the conditions of the people in this poem.
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4. Despite the conditions of the people in the above poem, did they give up?
    Which line tells you this?
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5. What do you understand by ‘ but on their brows, there was not a sign of despair’?
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6. What natural disaster had occurred to the place?
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7. Name the animal that had gone missing in this poem.
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8. Do you think the people in the poem are rich? Justify your answer with evidence
    from the poem?
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9. Why do you think the people are desperately looking for the lost animal?
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10. What is alliteration? Give an example of alliteration from the poem.
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11. Do you think the people here are hopeful and optimistic? Justify your answer.
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12. What can you learn from this poem?
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13. Do you think the poet has chosen a good title for this poem? Give a reason for
      your answer.
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14. Do you like the poem? Give a reason for your answer.
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Please answer all these questions below and email them to me.

1. The eyes have a lot of functions other than seeing. Explain one function of the eyes that
     you know and give an example when that function is being used.
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2. Do you believe in ‘seeing is believing’? Give a reason for your answer and relate it to
    the poem “He had such quiet eyes”.
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3. Why do you think the persona in the poem fell for the guy’s quiet eyes? Give a reason
    why she likes his ‘quiet eyes’.
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4. How can you help a friend who fell for a person who you know is a pleasure seeking
    person? Give a suggestion on how to help this friend.
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5. In the poem there is a phrase “how’s and why’s”. Form a question for each of the
    question in the phrase with close relation to the situation of the persona in the poem.
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6. Which one is easier to do, giving advice or listening to advice? Give a reason for
    your answer with close reference to the poem.
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Write a short paragraph of your own interpretation of the video.

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Let us have a test exercise on Valerie Bloom’s lively and lovely poem, ‘The River’.
Here goes-
1.       How many stanzas are there in ‘The River’?
a)      5
b)      6
c)       7
d)      8

2.       Pastoral people who move from place to place in search of food and water are called
a)      Campers
b)      Nomads
c)       Caravan people
d)      Vagrants

3.       To be ‘vexed’ means to be
a)      worried
b)      angry
c)       irritated
d)      haunted

4.       What is the most likely reason a river ‘twists and turns’?
a)      river waters move in torrents
b)      river water moves in currents
c)       water moves from left to right
d)      it cannot cut through hard rocks

5.       To ‘gobbled’ means to
a)      eat in slow motion
b)      eat noisily and quickly
c)       eat slowly  in small mouthfuls
d)      eat in an easy relaxed manner

6.       When water goes down our throats, it may
a)      gurgle
b)      gargle
c)       gobble
d)      garble

7.       ‘The River’ uses plenty of metaphors. Which is the following is not a metaphor?
a)      baby
b)      winder
c)       singer
d)      treasures

8.       ‘The River’ is personified with a
a)      female gender
b)      male gender
c)       neutral gender
d)      no gender

9.       The poet describes ‘The River’ as if it is a
a)      monster
b)      person
c)       baby
d)      wanderer

10.   An angry river becomes a monster and
a)      swallows
b)      destroys
c)       gobbles
d)      crushed

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 Complete the following crosswords. Email your answers here; undian88@yahoo.com

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