Questions and Answers

What are the Poetic Devices / Figures of Speech used in the poem “Abou Ben Adhem” by Leigh Hunt?

Explain “far-cast thought of civic good” in the poem “The heart of the tree” by Henry Cuyler Bunner. Or, How does the poet justify that trees contribute in a great way to the civic good?

What is the genre of the poem “The Heart of the Tree” written by Henry Cuyler Bunner?

What is twilight? Why is the twilight ‘happy’ in Henry Cuyler Bunner’s poem “The Heart of the Tree”?

Point out the similarities between Portia and Jessica in the play The Merchant Of Venice by William Shakespeare

“This woman had been despised, scoffed at, and angrily denounced by nearly every man, woman, and child in the village;” — Which woman is referred to here? How did she die?

Explain how Chief Seattle looks back at the golden past of his tribe in contrary to their impending doom in his famous speech of 1854.

What kind of a person was Jane Thompson before the little girl called Maggie came into her life in T. S. Arthur’s short story “An Angel in Disguise”?

Who is Luz Long in “My Greatest Olympic Prize” by Jesse Owens?

What is the effect of repetition of the word ‘where’ in Rabindranath Tagore’s poem ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear’? Or, Why does the poet use the word ‘where’ seven times?