I Pick the correct answer from the options given below
1. What kind of a poem is The Inchcape Rock?
Didactic
Ballad
Lyrical
Didactic and a Ballad
2. What kind of a poem is The Inchcape Rock?
Didactic and a Ballad
Lyrical
Ballad
Didactic
3. Name the poet.
Robert Browning
William Wordsworth
Robert Southey
William Blake
4. Identify the poetic device used in ' A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell, The Devil below was ringing his knell.'
Personification
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
5. What had the Abbot of Aberbrothok done?
He had placed a bell on the Inchcape Rock.
He had placed a siren on the Inchcape Rock.
He had placed a lock on the Inchcape Rock.
He had placed a flower on the Inchcape Rock.
6. Why did Sir Ralph cut the bell?
He wanted to bless the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
He wanted to see the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
He wanted to plague the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
He wanted to befriend the Abbot of Aberbrothok.
7. When Sir Ralph reached the Inchcape Rock, he ____________________.
placed a bell
rung a bell
cut the bell
found a bell
8. When Sir Ralph reached the Inchcape Rock, he .
placed a bell
rung a bell
cut the bell
found a bell
9. The word 'gurgling' is an example of _________________.
onomatopoeia
personification
simile
metaphor
10. What is the central idea of the poem?
Honesty is the best policy.
Actions speak louder than words.
All good things come to an end.
Those who do bad things will be ultimately punished.
II Answer the following questions.
1. How does the poet describe the sea at the start o the poem?
2..Who had placed the inchcape bell and why?
3-Why is the rock called perilous?
4-Who was Ralph the Rover?
5-What did he do to the inchcape bell?
6.How did the other members of the crew react to the bad weather?
III Answer the following question.
1. Read the poem extract and answer questions
No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The ship was still as she could be,
Her sails from heaven received no motion,
Her keel was steady in the ocean.
Questions
a-Identify the literary device used in the first line.
b Explain the line,Her sails from heaven received no motion.
c-Whose keel was steady and why?
2. Read the following poem extract and answer the questions
When the Rock was hid by the surgers swell,
The Mariners heard the warning bell,
And then they knew the perilous rock,
And blest the Abbot of Aberbrothok
Questions
aWhen was the rock hid by the surveys swell?
bWhat did the Mariners do when they heard the warning bell?
c-Whom did they bless and why?
3.Read the following poem extract and answer the questions
3-Sir Ralph the Rover sailed away,
He scour'd the seas for many a day,
And now grown rich with plundered store,
He steers his course for Scotland's shore.
Questions
a-Where did Ralph the Rovers ail away?
b-How did he grow rich?
c-Why did here turn to Scotland's shore?
C-Think, discuss and then answer
1-What kind of man is Ralph the rover?Support your answer with the examples from the poem
2The Inchcape Rock is based on a legend. Identify the legend.
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