English
Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationSSLC (English Medium) Class 10

Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

A silly young cricket accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.

Name the seasons mentioned here.

One Line Answer
Advertisements

Solution

The seasons mentioned are summer and winter.

shaalaa.com
Poetry (Class 10th)
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 4.2: The Ant and the Cricket - Exercise [Page 117]

APPEARS IN

Samacheer Kalvi English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
Chapter 4.2 The Ant and the Cricket
Exercise | Q A. 1. b) | Page 117

RELATED QUESTIONS

A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!

Pick out the rhyming words from the above lines.


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

A silly young cricket accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring.

What was the routine of the cricket?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”

Who does ‘I’ refer to?


Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.

In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the

cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.


Compare and contrast the attitude of the ant and the cricket.


Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?


Write your favourite stanza from the poem and find the rhyming scheme.


Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

  1. Who tells us to hate our brothers?
  2. What happens when we hate our brothers?
  3. What do we do to ourselves?

How is the mystery depicted in the poem?


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×