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Choose the correct alternative. The click of tongues reflects their __________ to the predicament. - English

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प्रश्न

Choose the correct alternative.

The click of tongues reflects their __________ to the predicament.

पर्याय

  • individual response

  • collective response

  • group response

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उत्तर

The click of tongues reflects their collective response to the predicament.

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Night of the Scorpion
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पाठ 3.1: Night of the Scorpion - English Workshop [पृष्ठ १०४]

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बालभारती English Kumarbharati [English] Standard 10 Maharashtra State Board
पाठ 3.1 Night of the Scorpion
English Workshop | Q 3. (10) | पृष्ठ १०४

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Get into pairs and discuss the following with your partners and complete the table.

Many people are superstitious. This means that they have a belief for which they have no logical reason.

An example of superstition is that - walking under a ladder brings bad luck. In pairs, list any superstitions that you know of.

Superstition What it implies
(1) Smashing a mirror Brings seven years of bad luck.
(2)  
(3)  
(4)  
(5)  

Complete the following table.

Imagery

Look at the description of the village peasants.
What does the imagery suggest about them?
The Images What images suggest
They came like swarms of flies.  
They buzzed the name of God.  
They threw giant scorpion shadows on the mud-baked walls.  
They clicked their tongues.  

Choose the correct alternative.

This is a _____________ poem as it tells a story.


Choose the correct alternative.

Using the first person gives the feeling that it is told from ______________.


Choose the correct alternative.

‘The scorpion picked on me. And spared my children’ depicts ____________.


Choose the correct alternative.

The poem does not have a rhyme scheme, which means the poem is a perfect example of a ___________.


Choose the correct alternative.

The peasants chant the name of God to _______________.


From the poem provide evidence for the following:

Stages Evidence (lines from the poem)
(a) the attempts by the peasants to help alleviate the mother’s pain.  
(b) the action of these same peasants to kill the scorpion  
(c) the reaction of the rational father.  
(d) the various superstitions versus the ‘scientific’  
(e) evil versus good.  

Read the poem and complete the table showing the qualities of the father and mother giving sufficient evidence from the poem.

Qualities
Father Mother
   

Read the following extract and complete the given activities:

A1. From the following extract of the poem provide evidence that it set in a rural background:

Evidence: 

  1. ______
  2. ______

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.

A2. How did the peasants console the poet’s mother? (02)

A3. Pick out an example of Antithesis from the extract: (01)


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