English
Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary EducationSSLC (English Medium) Class 9

Rampaging through the heavens Never stopping day or night, How does the comet travel?

Advertisements
Advertisements

Question

Rampaging through the heavens
Never stopping day or night,

How does the comet travel?

One Line Answer
Advertisements

Solution

The comet travel by making a lot of noise and causing damage.

shaalaa.com
Poetry (Class 9th)
  Is there an error in this question or solution?
Chapter 6.2: The Comet - Exercise [Page 166]

APPEARS IN

Samacheer Kalvi English Class 9 TN Board
Chapter 6.2 The Comet
Exercise | Q B. 1. a. | Page 166

RELATED QUESTIONS

Describe the effect of the poisonous fruit on the ‘enemy’.


Read the following lines from the poem and answer the question that follow.

I was angry with my friend.
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe.
I told it not, my wrath did grow.

Pick out the rhyming words.


"Oh no, no,” said the little Fly, “kind Sir, that cannot be,
I’ve heard what’s in your pantry, and I do not wish to see!"

Is the fly willing to enter the spider’s pantry?


"The Spider turned him round about, and went into his den,
For well he knew the silly Fly would soon come back again:"

Why is the poet using the word 'den' to describe the spider’s web?


Broad and deep, and still as time;
Seeming still, yet still in motion.

Is the time still?


Bright you sparkle on your way;
O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,
Through the flowers and foliage glancing, Like a child at play.
Pick out the rhyming words.


If one should come too close to earth
The atmosphere will shake,
With shock wave reaching to the ground
Causing the land to quake.

When you read the poem aloud, you can feel/hear a rhythm. What according to you gives rhythm to the poem- the rhyme or the words in a line? Support your answer with examples from the poem.


But the gladdest sort of people, when the busy day is done,
Are the brothers and the sisters who together share their fun.

When do they share their fun?


It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;

How do they find their joy?


It's the stick-together family that wins the joys of earth,
That hears the sweetest music and that finds the finest mirth;

What does the poet mean by 'stick-together family'?


Share
Notifications

Englishहिंदीमराठी


      Forgot password?
Use app×