Amanda!

Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

1) In which of the following pictures do you think is the attitude of the speaker best described?

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Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

2) What does the exclamatory sign at the end of Amanda indicate?

• The angry expression of Amanda

• Regret of speaker

• Dignified tone of speaker

• Shrieks of speaker

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CCSS.RL.9-10.4

Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

3) In which of the following situations, the word 'slouching' cannot be used?

• It is always taught that slouching is a bad practice

• Slouching is something the teenagers mostly do these days

• I have been taught to improve slouching in my work

• All of the above

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Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

4) In which of the following pictures, the girl has a similar physical posture as that of Amanda as described in above stanza?

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Don’t bite your nails, Amanda!

Don’t hunch your shoulders, Amanda!

Stop that slouching and sit up straight,

Amanda!

5) Which of the following poetic devices is not used in the above stanza?

• Anaphora

• Alliteration

• Assonance

• Personification

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(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

6) What does the parentheses used in the above stanza indicate?

• Fancies of Amanda

• Angry reply

• Sweet freedom

• Bare feet

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(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

7) Why is the freedom called sweet here?

• It is something that is missing in speaker's actual life

• Teenagers crave for it much

• The speaker is not used to it

• All of the above

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(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

8) The first line indicates that _____________

• The speaker has lost his/her parents from early childhood

• The speaker doesn't want to be alone

• The speaker wants to get some freedom

• The speaker is fed up of the school system

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(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

9) For whom the silence could be golden according to the stanza?

• The person facing many dilemmas in life

• A person who is being nagged continuously

• Any teenager who is always being taunted to do one thing or the other

• Both (b) and (c)

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(I am an orphan, roaming the street.

I pattern soft dust with my hushed, bare feet.

The silence is golden, the freedom is sweet.)

10) Silence is compared to ___________

• Something very precious

• An important thing

• The ultimate thing

• Anything a person likes

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