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Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meanings from the context.
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Going Places
Where was it most likely that the two girls would find work after school?
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Going Places
What were the options that Sophie was dreaming of? Why does Jansie discourage her to have such dreams?
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Going Places
Of what or of whom is Aunt Jennifer terrified with in the third stanza?
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Why do you think Aunt Jennifer created animals that are so different from her own character? What might the poet be suggesting, through this difference?
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Do you sympathise with Aunt Jennifer? What is the attitude of the speaker towards Aunt Jennifer?
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Have you ever stopped at a roadside stand? What have you observed there?
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A Roadside Stand
The city folk who drove through the countryside hardly paid any heed to the roadside stand or to the people who ran it. If at all they did, it was to complain. Which lines bring this out? What was their complaint about?
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A Roadside Stand
What was the plea of the folk who had put up the roadside stand?
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A Roadside Stand
The government and other social service agencies appear to help the poor rural people, but actually do them no good. Pick out the words and phrases that the poet uses to show their double standards.
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A Roadside Stand
What is the ‘childish longing’ that the poet refers to? Why is it ‘vain’?
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A Roadside Stand
Which lines tell us about the insufferable pain that the poet feels at the thought of the plight of the rural poor?
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A Roadside Stand
What does the title of the poem suggest to you? Are you reminded of other poems on tigers?
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
Why do you think Aunt Jennifer's hands are 'fluttering through her wool' in the second stanza? Why is she finding the needle so hard to pull?
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Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
List the things of beauty mentioned in the poem.
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A thing of beauty
List the things that cause suffering and pain.
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A thing of beauty
What does the line, 'Therefore are we wreathing a flowery band to bind us to earth' suggest to you?
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A thing of beauty
What makes human beings love life in spite of troubles and sufferings?
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A thing of beauty
Do we experience things of beauty only for short moments or do they make a lasting impression on us?
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A thing of beauty
What image does the poet use to describe the beautiful bounty of the earth?
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A thing of beauty
What do you understand by the expression “thumbprints on his windpipe”?
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The Interview
Who, in today’s world, is our chief source of information about personalities?
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The Interview
How does Eco find the time to write so much?
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The Interview
Did Umberto Eco consider himself a novelist first or an academic scholar?
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The Interview
What is the reason for the huge success of the novel, The Name of the Rose?
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The Interview
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