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Word Meaning

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Literature Comprehension

A) Direct questions and answers

1) What is the poem about?

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2) What is the child doing all by himself?

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3) Describe the cart that the child sees.

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B) Reference to context

4) ‘All of the sights of the hills and the plains,
Fly as thick as driving rain;’

a) Where is the child when he sees the scenes of the hills and plains?

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b) What is the train compared to in the above lines?

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c) In these lines, which words emphasise speed?

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5) ‘And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.’

a) What does the phrase ‘in the wink of an eye’ mean?

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