Read the following extract and do the given activities.
A1. Match the following:
| (1) Misfortunes |
mud-baked |
| (2) Ambition |
bad luck |
| (3) World |
goal |
| (4) Wall |
unreal |
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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.
May the poison purify your flesh
of desire, and your spirit of ambition
they said, and they sat around
on the floor with my mother in the centre,
the peace of understanding on each face.
-Nissim Ezekiel
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A2. Write two words ending in "on".
A3. Give an example of "metaphor" from the extract.
