Question

Read the following extract and do the activities:

A1. Choose the correct alternatives:    [2]

1. The poet has stopped in the ______. (village/city)
2. The season of the year is ______. (winter/summer)
3. The time of the day is ______. (evening/morning)
4. Between the woods and the frozen ______ is the darkest evening of the year.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

A2. Find out line/lines from the above stanzas as a proof for the following explanation:    [2]

1. His horse seems anxious to stop .............
2. The speaker prefers to stay but is forced to move onwards.

A3. Write your own rhyming words for the following:   [1]

1. near - .............
2. shake - ............

Answer 1

A1. 

1. The poet has stopped in the village.
2. The season of the year is winter.
3. The time of the day is evening.
4. Between the woods and the frozen lake is the darkest evening of the year.

A2. 

1. His horse seems anxious to stop He gives his harness bells a shake.
2. And miles to go before I sleep.

A3. 

1. near - dear
2. shake - make