Class 7 English Unit 01 Nature’s Plenty - The Echoing Green - Questions and Answers
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Unit 01 Nature’s Plenty - The Echoing Green
The Echoing Green - Textual Questions and Answers & Model Questions
Answer the Following Questions
1. What does the expression ‘the echoing green’ suggest?
Answer: In the poem, the green colour is the remembrance of their young age. The green colour suggests the joy they feel. Echoing means the bringing back the colourful childhood memories of the old people.
2. ls Old John happy? Pick out the line to support your answer.
Answer: Yes. He is happy. ‘Does laugh away with care’ suggests that.
3. Why are the little ones ‘no more merry?’
Answer: They are weary of playing. So there is no more merry.
4. What effect does the descending sun have on sports?
Answer: Children stop playing when the sun descends.
5. Where do the sisters and the brothers take rest?
Answer: The sisters and the brothers take rest round the laps of their mother.
6. What does the speaker mean by ‘the darkening green?’
Answer: The entry of night. It also suggests the old men's past childhood time. Now, that green darkened. (പ്രായമുള്ള ആളുകളുടെ കുട്ടിക്കാലത്തെ സൂചിപ്പിക്കുന്നതുമാകാം)
Activity
1. Read the following lines from the poem ‘The Echoing Green’.
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
Alliteration: the use of the same sound(consonants)at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words.
* In line six, the sound of the letter ‘b’ is repeated.
* In line nine, the sound of the letter ‘s’ is repeated.
* Such a repetition is termed alliteration.
Now, identify the instances of alliteration in the lines given below, and write them in the space provided.
The swimmers swam and searched the sea,
Special sea shells hid beneath the sand.
Children catch small creatures and set them free,
Screaming, splashing and skipping to the land.
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Answer:
swimmers, swam, searched
catch, creatures
Screaming, splashing, skipping
2. Read the following lines from the poem ‘The Echoing Green.’
Old John with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
'Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.'
Rhyme: the use of words in a poem/song that have the same sound/s, especially at the end of lines.
- The two words ‘hair’ and ‘care’ end with the same sound. They are rhyming words.
* Identify the other rhyming words and circle them.
Answer:
Old John with white hair
Does laugh away care,
Sitting under the oak,
Among the old folk.
They laugh at our play,
And soon they all say:
'Such, such were the joys
When we all, girls and boys,
In our youth-time were seen
On the echoing green.'
3. An old man with white hair sitting under the oak tree, young girls and boys at play, etc., are the visual images that come to our mind when we read the second stanza of the poem.
Now, find out the visual images in the following lines. Write
them below.
The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
The merry bells ring
To welcome the spring.
The skylark and thrush,
The birds of the bush,
Sing louder around,
To the bells' cheerful sound,
While our sports shall be seen
On the echoing green.
Answer: The sun does arise,
And make happy the skies.
When we read these lines, an image/picture develops in our mind. We get a picture of morning sky. Such pictures are called visual images.
* The sun is rising up and the sky becomes bright and happy.
More visual images
* Many birds are sitting in the trees and singing.
* Many children are playing on the ground.
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