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SAI International School
Class IX- English
Module 8 Rain on the Roof
Assessment
Read the following passages and answer the questions:
1. When the humid shadows hover
Over all the starry spheres
And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears,
a. What do you understand by humid shadow?
b. Give synonym for ‘melancholy’.
c. Who gently weeps in rainy tears?
d. What are the 'starry spheres'?
2. Every tinkle on the shingles
Has an echo in the heart;
And a thousand dreamy fancies
Into busy being start,
a. What are shingles?
b.What echoes in the heart?
c.Explain ‘fancies’.
d.What is the rhyming scheme of the stanza?
Answer the following questions in about 30 words:
3. What does the poet dream about?
4. Why does the poet say, ‘echo in the heart’?
5. Identify and explain the figure of speech used in the line ‘into busy
being start’?
6. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Rain on the Roof’? What is the poet
trying to convey through the poem?
7. What thoughts does he have about his mother?
8. Why does the post say, ‘list to the refrain’?
Answer the following questions in about 100 words:
9. When the soft rain falls on the roof, have you ever listened to it?
Explain your experience.
