Question

Read the following extracts and answer the question.

Sometimes I feel myself I can hardly bear The thought of so much childish longing in vain, The sadness that lurks near the open window there, That waits all day in almost open prayer. For the squeal of brakes, the sound of a stopping car, Of all the thousand selfish cars that pass, Just one to inquire what a farmer’s prices are And one did stop, but only to plow up grass In using the yard to back and turn around; And another to ask the way to where it was bound;

1. Select the option that has the same literary device as in ‘The sadness that lurks near the open window there’.
   1. Lucy moved across the room like a warship sailing into battle.
   2. Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
   3. The water-wraith was shrieking.
   4. The pen is mightier than the sword.
2. They prayed for the stopping of a car. When one car finally stopped, it brought ______ to the people of the roadside stand.
   1. help
   2. happiness
   3. disappointment
   4. cash flow
3. Explain one inference that can be drawn from the line, ‘……childish longing in vain’.
4. Complete the sentence appropriately.
   The emotion of the poet reflected in the above extract is ______.
   
5. The expression ‘selfish car’ suggests that ______.
6. Based on the rhyme scheme evident in the last two lines of the extract, which word would rhyme with the last line?
   (brass, reply, sound)

Answer 1

1. The water-wraith was shrieking.
   Explanation:
   The water-wraith was shrieking. (personification is used)
2. disappointment
3. Perhaps related to their wish for someone to stop at the roadside stand, the speaker feels an unmet longing.
4. The emotion of the poet reflected in the above extract is that of sadness/disappointment.
5. The expression ‘selfish car’ suggests that cars are not concerned about the people at the roadside stand.
6. sound