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Class 10 English - First Flight Chapter How To Tell Wild Animals [poem] Summary, Explanation, Question Answers (NCERT Solutions)

How To Tell Wild Animals (How To Tell Wild Animals [poem]) CBSE class 10 English - First Flight Chapter How To Tell Wild Animals [poem] summary with detailed explanation of the lesson How To Tell Wild Animals along with meanings of difficult words. Given here is the complete explanation of the lesson, along with summary, explanation and questions and answers of each topic of lesson How To Tell Wild Animals [poem].

English - First Flight (Chapter How To Tell Wild Animals [poem]) Solution
 Thinking About The Poem

5. Look at the line ‘A novice might nonplus.” How would you write this ‘correctly’? Why is the poet’s ‘incorrect’ line better in the poem?

Answer :


The line “A novice might nonplus” can be written correctly as “A novice might be nonplussed”. However, the poet’s incorrect line is better in the poem as it maintains the rhyme scheme of the poem. By writing it incorrectly, ‘nonplus’ rhymes with ‘thus’.


All Questions of English - First Flight Chapter How To Tell Wild Animals [poem]
Thinking About The Poem
1. Does ‘dying’ really rhyme with ‘lion’? Can you say it in such a way that it does?
2. How does the poet suggest that you identify the lion and the tiger? When can you do so according to him?
3. Do you think the words ‘lept’ and ‘lep’ in the third stanza are spelt correctly? Why does the poet spell them like this?
4. Do you know what a ‘bearhug’ is? It’s a friendly and strong hug-such as bears are thought to give, as they attack you! Again, hyenas are thought to laugh and crocodiles to weep (‘crocodile tears’) as they swallow their victims. Are there similar expressions and popular ideas about wild animals in your own language (s)?
5. Look at the line ‘A novice might nonplus.” How would you write this ‘correctly’? Why is the poet’s ‘incorrect’ line better in the poem?
6. Can you find other examples of poets taking liberties with language, either in English or in your own language? Can you find examples of humorous poems in your own language (s)?
7. Much of the humour in the poem arises from the way language is used. Although the ideas are funny as well. If there are particular lines in the poem that you especially like, share these lines with the class, speaking briefly about what it is about the ideas or the language that you like or find funny.

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