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Write information about Ballad.
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Select the appropriate figure of speech from the box given below and complete the table.
| Metaphor, Alliteration, Repetition, Personification, Inversion, Simile, Apostrophe, Onomatopoeia |
| Examples | Figure of Speech | Explanation |
| 1. Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair. | Alliteration | The close repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
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Compose 4 to 6 lines on ‘sea’.
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Pick out the describing words from the poem and add a noun of your own. One is done for you.
| Toiling (time) | Toiling (day) |
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Match the words given in column A with their meaning in column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Cheerful | a. With feeling of disappointment |
| 2. Selfish | b. Lack of satisfaction |
| 3. Sorely | c. Happy |
| 4. Discontent | d. Concerned with one’s own pleasure |
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There are a few examples of homonyms in the poem. For example ‘spoke’. List homonyms from the poem and give their meanings.
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The poet has used different poetic devices like Alliteration and Interrogation in the poem. Identify them and pick out the lines.
| Poetic Device | Lines |
| (a) Alliteration | |
| (b) Interrogation |
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The rhyme scheme of the first stanza is ‘aabb’. Find the rhyme scheme of other stanzas
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Write a set of 8 to 10 interview questions to be asked to a social worker. Take the help of the following points.
- Childhood
- Education
- Service
- Difficulties
- Future plans
- Achievements
- Message
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Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:
Father’s attire
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Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:
Father’s tea
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Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:
Father’s footwear
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Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:
Father’s food
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Complete the following using suitable describing word as appeared in the poem with the help of the words given in the option:
Father’s eyesight
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‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’.
In the above line, the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred Epithet. Find out another such expression from the poem.
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Identify and write the lines from the poem which express the following figures of speech.
| Figures of speech | Lines |
| 1. Simile | |
| 2. Alliteration | |
| 3. Onomatopoeia |
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I see him drinking weak tea, Eating a stale chapati.
Here ‘stale chapati’ stands for stale food/non-nourishing food or diet, where the part symbolizes the whole, i.e. food. Guess the name of the figure of speech.
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Identify the rhyme scheme of all the stanzas of the poem.
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A contraction is a shortened version of the written and spoken forms of the word, syllable or word groups created by omission of internal letters and sounds. Find out the instances of contractions from the poem.
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Find out from the poem example of Simile.
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