Night of the Scorpion

Topics

English Kumarbharti
Where the Mind is Without Fear...
- Where the Mind is Without Fear...
The Thief’s Story
- The Thief’s Story
On Wings of Courage
- On Wings of Courage
All the World’s a Stage
- All the World’s a Stage
Joan of Arc
- Joan of Arc
The Alchemy of Nature
- The Alchemy of Nature
Animals
- Animals
Three Questions
- Three Questions
Connecting the Dots
- Connecting the Dots
The Pulley
- The Pulley
Let’s March
- Let’s March!
Science and Spirituality
- Science and Spirituality
Night of the Scorpion
- Night of the Scorpion
The Night I Met Einstein
- The Night I Met Einstein
Stephen Hawking
- Stephen Hawking
The Will to Win
- The Will to Win
Unbeatable Super Mom - Mary Kom
- Unbeatable Super Mom - Mary Kom
The Concert
- The Concert
A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever
- A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever
The Luncheon
- The Luncheon
World Heritage
- World Heritage
The Height of the Ridiculous
- The Height of the Ridiculous
The Old Man and the Sea : Book Review
- The Old Man and the Sea : Book Review
The Gift of the Magi
- The Gift of the Magi
Grammar
- Grammar
- The Alphabet
- Parts of Speech
- Noun
- Pronoun
- Verb
- Adjective
- Adverb
- Preposition
- Conjunction
- Interjection
- Determiners
- Articles - A, An, The
- Degrees of Comparison
- Make a Sentence
- Types of Sentences
- Types of Sentences
- Subject and Predicate
- Direct-Indirect Speech
- Clauses
- Vocabulary
- Synonyms
- Antonyms
- Homonyms
- Homophones
- Homographs
- Register
- Root Word
- Prefix-suffix
- Compound Words
- Word Building
- Punctuation
- Speech
- Pronunciation
- Figures of Speech
- Idioms and Phrases
- Syllables
- Tense
- English Translation
- Rhyme Scheme
- Modal Auxiliary
- Use ‘Not Only but Also’
- Use ‘As Soon As’, ‘either ... or’ and ‘No Sooner ... Than’
- Rhyming Words
- Wh-questions
- Add a Question Tag
- Spotting Errors
- Change the Voice
- Make a Sentence
- Use of Though, Although, Even Though and but
Writing Skill
- Writing Skills
- Speech Writing
- Story Writing
- Summary Writing
- Dialogue Writing
- Interview Questions
- Report Writing
- Note Making
- Letter Writing
- View and Counterview
- Tourist Leaflet
- Article Writing
- Information Transfer
- Expansion of Ideas
- Narration
- Paragraph Writing
- Notice Writing
Reading Skill (Textual and Non-textual)
- Reading Skills
- Unseen Passage Comprehension
- Unseen Poem Comprehension

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Read the following extract and do the given activities.

A1. Match the following:

(1) Misfortunes	mud-baked
(2) Ambition	bad luck
(3) World	goal
(4) Wall	unreal

With candles and with lanterns
throwing giant scorpion shadows
on the mud-baked walls
they searched for him : he was not found.
They clicked their tongues.
With every movement that the scorpion made his poison
moved in Mother's blood, they said.
May he sit still, they said
May the sins of your previous birth
be burned away tonight, they said.
May your suffering decrease
the misfortunes of your next birth, they said.
May the sum of all evil
balanced in this unreal world
against the sum of good
become diminished by your pain.
May the poison purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition
they said, and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face.

-Nissim Ezekiel

A2. Write two words ending in "on".

A3. Give an example of "metaphor" from the extract.