Question

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.

Answer 1

A1. 

(1) Misfortunes	Bad luck
(2) Ambition	Goal
(3) World	Unreal
(4) Wall	Mud baked

A2.

1. Poison
2. Ambition

A3. Metaphor - Giant scorpion shadows.