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FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE, TEXTUAL QUESTIONS ANSWERS, Let’s revisit Questions: Answers, 1. D, 2. C, 3. B, 4. B, 5. C, 6. B, 7. D, 8. C, 9. D, 10. C, 11. fairies, witches, houses, hedges, ditches, troops, meadows, horse, sights,, stations, clambers, scrambles, brambles, stands, gazes, daisies, Cluster of letters -es/ -ies, The sounds repeated in the poem give a locomotive rhythm. It makes the poem, more musical., 12. Accept any logical answer like ‘fishing boat’ , ‘lakes’ and ‘backwater’,, ‘rivers’ , ‘paddy field’ , ‘farmers’ , etc., No, because the bus is slower than a train. Besides , a train often moves through, open fields and meadows., , Activity 2, battle-cattle, plain-rain, eye-bye, scrambles-brambles, road-load, river-forever, , Activity 3, 1.’ And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows , the horses and cattle

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2. All of the sights of the hill and the plain-rain, Fly as thick as driving rain’., , Activity 4, Alliterating Lines, ‘Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches’, , Assonance, ‘Fly as thick as driving rain’, ‘Here is a child who clambers and scrambles, All by himself and gathering brambles.’, ‘Here is a tramp who stands and gazes’, ‘And here is a hill and there is a river.’, They lend a rhythmic quality to the poem., , Activity 5, The rhythm gives a feel of the moving train., , Activity 6, plain, , a, , rain, , a, , eye, , b, , by, , b, , Activity 7, a. painted stations whistling- auditory, b. charging along like troops – visual, c. hill and the plain – visual

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d. a child who clambers and scrambles -auditory, e. a cart running away in the road – auditory, f. hill and river – visual, POETIC DEVICES, Rhyming Words, Same sounding words are called rhyming words., Eg: witches- ditches, battle- cattle, plain- rain, , Alliteration, Repetition of same initial consonant sounds of words in a line, eg: i) Faster than fairies, faster than witches, /f/ sound is repeated in the words like faster, fairies, ii) Bridges and houses , hedges and ditches, /h/ sound in houses, hedges etc., , Assonance, Repetition of same vowel sounds in a line, eg. i) Fly as thick as driving rain, / ai/ sound in fly , driving etc., ii) And here is a hill and there is a river, i) sound in hill, is, river etc