Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following lines and

1.	Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.“A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring, Began to complain when he found that, at home,His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.” (а) What are the two qualities of the Cricket described here? (b) What is the weather condition in the above lines? (c) What do you understand by the word, ‘accustomed’? (d) Why has the young cricket been called silly? (e) How did he spend his summer and spring? (f) What did he find in winter? (g) Write the rhyming words.
Answer» (a) The two qualities to describe the cricket in this poem are foolish cricket and singer cricket. (b) The weather condition is dry summer and cold winter. (c) Accustomed means ‘used to’. (d) The young cricket has been called silly because he sang day and night all throughout the warm weathers. He made no provisions for the future. (e) He spent his summer and spring singing all day and night. (f) He found his empty cupboard without any food to eat in winter. (g) The rhyming words are ‘sing-spring’ and ‘home-come’.

Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.“A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring, Began to complain when he found that, at home,His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.” (а) What are the two qualities of the Cricket described here? (b) What is the weather condition in the above lines? (c) What do you understand by the word, ‘accustomed’? (d) Why has the young cricket been called silly? (e) How did he spend his summer and spring? (f) What did he find in winter? (g) Write the rhyming words.

Answer»

(a) The two qualities to describe the cricket in this poem are foolish cricket and singer cricket.

(b) The weather condition is dry summer and cold winter.

(c) Accustomed means ‘used to’.

(d) The young cricket has been called silly because he sang day and night all throughout the warm weathers. He made no provisions for the future.

(e) He spent his summer and spring singing all day and night.

(f) He found his empty cupboard without any food to eat in winter.

(g) The rhyming words are ‘sing-spring’ and ‘home-come’.