(a) Where does it spend its y lounger days? (b) What is sweeping? (c) Identify the figure of speech. (d) What is meant by ‘impetuous’?

Question

Read the following lines and answer the River Poem questions given below.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping Like impetuous youth.

(a) Where does it spend its y lounger days?

(b) What is sweeping?

(c) Identify the figure of speech.

(d) What is meant by ‘impetuous’?

(e) Why is the river compared to an ‘impetuous youth’?

Answer 1

(a) It spends younger days through rocks and woods.

(b) The river is sweeping.

(c) Simile is the figure of speech.

(d) ‘Impetuous’ means reckless or hasty.

(e) The river is compared to an impetuous youth because of its reckless and hasty movements over rocks and rose-banks.