English Poetry Quiz: 27.01.2021 for CTET & State TET Exams Exams

Question 1

Identify the rhyming scheme of the given lines:

The grass will poke between your toes,
Smell the flowers with your nose.
Clouds form shapes within the skies,
And light will glisten from your eyes

Question 2

Identify the figure of speech in the given line:

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping

Question 3

Extract 2

Till the goldfinch comes, with a twitching chirrup

A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end

Then, sleek as a lizard, and alert and abrupt,

She enters the thickness, and a machine starts up

Of chitterings, and of tremor of wings, and trillings

The line ‘A suddenness, a startlement, at a branch end’ of Extract 2 contains which figure of speech?

Question 4

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

The poem uses a rhyme scheme. Which lines of the poem rhyme?

Question 5

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

Which choice best represents the message that is in the poem?

Question 6

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

The word HUMBLE in the poem most likely means:

Question 7

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

“Like the heaven above” is an example of?

Question 8

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

According to the poem as drops related to ocean, minutes is related to?

Question 9

Direction: Read the passage carefully and answer the questions that follow by selecting the correct/most appropriate options.

Little drops of water,

Little grains of sand,

Make the mighty ocean

And the pleasant land.

Thus the little minutes,

Humble though they be,

Make the mighty ages

Of eternity.

Little deeds of kindness

Little words of love

Help to make earth happy

Like the heaven above.

“though they be” is an example of?