Questions and Answers

Identify and explain the figures of speech used in the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth.

Justify the title of Stephen Leacock’s short story “My Lost Dollar”. How is this title more appropriate than the possible title “The Borrowed Dollar”?

Explain the poetic devices / figures of speech used in line 11 and 12 of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “If–“.

What were the changes in the time and condition when Vasavadatta and Upagupta met for the first time and again towards the end in Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Abhisara – The Tryst”?

From “A Doctor’s Journal Entry” by Vikram Seth

What is the legend regarding the Inchcape Rock, the base of the poem ‘The Inchcape Rock’ by Robert Southey?

Why did Mrs. Thompson finally decide to keep Maggie in her house in T. S. Arthur’s short story “An Angel in Disguise”?

What is the “small pain” of the soldier in Michael Mack’s poem “Small Pain in My Chest”?

How was the condition of the terminally-ill patient depicted in Tony Hoagland’s poem “Why I Like the Hospital”?

What is the rhyme scheme used in the poem “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth?