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Class 7.chapter 14 Literature

The document contains comprehension questions and answers related to the poem 'Rathers' by Mary Hunter Austin, focusing on the speaker's desires to transform into various animals and their characteristics. It discusses the speaker's admiration for the owl, antelope, and puma, as well as the power dynamics between the puma and the hunter. Additionally, it includes analysis of specific stanzas, highlighting rhyming pairs and the speaker's wish to escape responsibilities.

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Class 7.chapter 14 Literature

The document contains comprehension questions and answers related to the poem 'Rathers' by Mary Hunter Austin, focusing on the speaker's desires to transform into various animals and their characteristics. It discusses the speaker's admiration for the owl, antelope, and puma, as well as the power dynamics between the puma and the hunter. Additionally, it includes analysis of specific stanzas, highlighting rhyming pairs and the speaker's wish to escape responsibilities.

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Class 7

Chapter 14

Rathers by Mary Hunter Austin

Comprehension

A. Answer these questions.


1. Why does the speaker use the terms 'wink - ity'and 'blink-ity' to describe the Owl?
Ans:- The speaker use wink ity and blink ity to suggest that the owl blinks and
appears to be winking. Also, these words bring the rhyming effect.

2. Give a description of the antelope the speaker wishes to become.


Ans:- the speaker wishes to become an antelope, a prong- horned antelope, with lots of other
antelope skimming like a cloud on a wire- grass plain.

3. Why does the speaker wish to be a puma?


Ans:- The speaker wishes to be a Puma , because a puma is a fierce and coloured and slinking
animal , whose characters was liked by the speaker.

4. Describe the special qualities of the hunter.


Ans:- the hunter had a special quality to kill the puma , he is a red Indian hunter.

5. Who is more powerful the, puma or the hunter? Explain.


Ans:- The hunter is more powerful that the puma.
He is a red Indian hunter who can killthe puma with the bow made of juniper wood.

B. Answer these questions with reference to the context.

1. And I would never take a look

At a lesson or a book And I would scold like a pirate on the sea

If I only had to do what I like to do

And did not always have to be me!

a. Identify the rhyming pairs from the above stanza.


Ans:- The rhyming pairs are , look , book ; to do ,to do.

b. What does the speaker wish to do in these lines?


Ans:-The speaker wishes to scold like a pirate on the sea.
c. Explain the last two lines.
Ans:- The speaker all ways like to do what he wishes but sometimes the wishes doesn’t fulfill in
the life.

2. Skimming like a cloud on a wire- grass plane.

A bounding bouncing antelope

You would never get me back to my desk again!

a. Give a description of the activities of the antelope.


Ans:- The antelope moving quickly lightly running with long steps so that the puma can’t get him
in his desk again.

b. Name the persona of the poem.


Ans:- The persona of the poem is Mary Hunter Austin.

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