Click 👉 Use of English/Grammar Exercise: Unit 5: Literature and Poetry
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Exercise Question and Answers:
Unit 5: " Literature and Poetry "
The Story “ The Gold-legged Frog"
(National Book Foundation - New Book/New Syllabus Based on Single National Curriculum Pakistan 2023-2024 and Onwards)
(Class 8 English Notes for 8th Centralized Exam 2023 and onward, FDE, Islamabad)
Exercise Question and Answers:
Answer the following questions.
Q(a). How is the sun described in the story?
Ans:
The sun is described as harsh and torturing. Sun was burnt in a way that it was crisping every living in the broad field.
Ans:
The sun is described as harsh and torturing. Sun was burnt in a way that it was crisping every living in the broad field.
Q(b). The leaves of the trees are described as dirty yellow and his surroundings as total 'dryness’. Which weather conditions are being described here?
Ans:
The weather conditions described in the story, Early morning freezing temperatures and the mid-day sun was scorching hot is being observed.
The weather conditions described in the story, Early morning freezing temperatures and the mid-day sun was scorching hot is being observed.
Q(c). How does Bacon highlight the importance of experience?
Ans:
The author has referred to the symptoms of sun-stroke in specific words. Can you identify and described them in your own words? Ans: It is evident that how to cope with the effects of poverty and learning has become an important part of Nark's and his family's life. Symptoms of sunstroke are headache, dizziness, sweating, dry skin, etc.
The author has referred to the symptoms of sun-stroke in specific words. Can you identify and described them in your own words? Ans: It is evident that how to cope with the effects of poverty and learning has become an important part of Nark's and his family's life. Symptoms of sunstroke are headache, dizziness, sweating, dry skin, etc.
Q(d). What is meant by dry padded fields?
Ans:
Dry paddy fields are flooded fields of cultivated lands for growing semi-aquatic crops such as rice.
Dry paddy fields are flooded fields of cultivated lands for growing semi-aquatic crops such as rice.
Q(e). What kind of story 'The Gold-Legged frog' is?
Ans:
This story has a third-person perspective. The main character of the story is Nark, a rice farmer with five children and with a poor economic state. He is a man who is helpless not because he is poor but because he does not have any authority. Nark is shown as a hard-working man who is trying to get food in the paddy fields.
2. Read the following lines from the story and explain them in your own words.
This story has a third-person perspective. The main character of the story is Nark, a rice farmer with five children and with a poor economic state. He is a man who is helpless not because he is poor but because he does not have any authority. Nark is shown as a hard-working man who is trying to get food in the paddy fields.
2. Read the following lines from the story and explain them in your own words.
Q(a). Now and again the tall, straight, isolated Sabang and Paynom trees let go of some of their dirty yellow leaves.
Explanation:
The author of the story is talking about the different kinds of trees on which there were some yellow leaves and now they are falling from them because of the arrival of summer. The writer is using imagery of 'yellow leaves' in the story.
The author of the story is talking about the different kinds of trees on which there were some yellow leaves and now they are falling from them because of the arrival of summer. The writer is using imagery of 'yellow leaves' in the story.
Q(b). The sank exhausted against a tree trunk with his dark blue shirt wet with sweat. The expanse around him expressed total dryness. He stared at the tufts of dull grass and bits of straw spun in a column to the sky.'
Explanation:
In these lines, the farmer gets exhausted and takes the help of the tree's trunk to stand, because of the dryness his blue shirt was full of sweating and the grass or pieces of straw were looking very dry and they were standing under the sky in the column. Here the author has used the personification of "dull grass".
The sank exhausted against a tree trunk with his dark blue shirt wet with sweat. The expanse around him expressed total dryness. He stared at the tufts of dull grass and bits of straw spun in a column to the sky.'
In these lines, the farmer gets exhausted and takes the help of the tree's trunk to stand, because of the dryness his blue shirt was full of sweating and the grass or pieces of straw were looking very dry and they were standing under the sky in the column. Here the author has used the personification of "dull grass".
The sank exhausted against a tree trunk with his dark blue shirt wet with sweat. The expanse around him expressed total dryness. He stared at the tufts of dull grass and bits of straw spun in a column to the sky.'
Q(c). 'In the morning the cold had pierced his bones, but now it was so hot he felt his head would break into bits and pieces.
Explanation:
c. In these lines author is telling us how the coldness of morning makes holes in Nark's body and bones, how the hot and dry weather of the day breaks his head into pieces means he feels heat strokes due to extreme heat.
c. In these lines author is telling us how the coldness of morning makes holes in Nark's body and bones, how the hot and dry weather of the day breaks his head into pieces means he feels heat strokes due to extreme heat.
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Source: English Book (National Book Foundation, Pakistan)
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