Practice Time : 3.1 City

1.The speaker in the poem is  old woman. Give evidence from the poem.

2.Write true or false
I) She is young.
II) She is old.
III) She belongs to Village.
IV) She belongs to city.

3. Pick up an expression that shows : she has permanently settled in the City

4.Pick up the lines from the poem that referred to city life.

5. Pick out the words that describe her life.

6. Complete the statement. The words painted on her door indicates that.,.......

7. The way  Woman is living her life indicate no sign of happiness. Pick up examples from the poem to support this statement

8.Look at the lines from the poem referring to friendship. State opinion about her attitude to friendship

9. Compare the life in the village and her life in the City

10. She is now living the life of pretence. Prove it.

11. Complete the statement. The curses of city life described in the poem are........

12. The woman has shut up herself from friends or from others because.......

13. Currently dressed in modern dresses, taking yesterday as a very old hag.  Identify and explain the figures of speech used here .
Pick out an example of each:  metaphor,antithesis and alliteration.