General English – Group 2 Exam Series 19– Poem 11 – The River

Poem 11 – The River 

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1. The poem “The River ” is written by ? 

A. Caroline Ann Bowles

B. Anne Mathew

C. Charles Douglas

D. Ruskin Bond

2. The poem River tells about the ?

A. Morphology of the river

B. Comparing River and life

C. Informing readers about the types of the river

D. River pollution

3. Which among the following poet did various works including ‘The Little Ladybird’, ‘Chapter on Churchyard’ and ‘Tales of the Factories’ ? 

A. Caroline Ann Bowles

B. Anne Mathew

C. Charles Douglas

D. Ruskin Bond

4. ” River, river, little river!

Bright you sparkle on your way; ” 

Here the poet mentions river as ? 

A. Small river

B. Young

C. Small and old river

D. Small and young River

5. ” O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

Through the flowers and foliage glancing, ” 

The river flows through ? 

A. Rocks

B. Pebbles

C. Soils

D. Wetland

6. “O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

Through the flowers and foliage glancing, ” 

The meaning of foliage is ? 

A. Forest

B. Cluster of leaves

C. Trees in open forest

D. Wastelands

7.” O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

Through the flowers and foliage glancing, ” 

How poet compared these line life of human ? 

A. Birth of child

B. Child crying

C. Child playing

D. Child’s love

8. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth “

In this stanza , river flows like a ? 

A. Youth

B. Old age

C. Child

D. Middle age

9. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

The meaning of Swelling is ? 

A. Becoming greater in intensity

B. Wound in the Body

C. Becoming Very small

D. Control

10. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth “

Here how the poet mentions about the passage of river ? 

A. River flow is very silent

B. River flows through smooth valley

C. River flows in a rush

D. River flows deep

11. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth “

In the line , how poet compares river flow with youth ? 

A. Energetic

B. Very active

C. Actions without much thought

D. All the above are correct

12. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth ” 

The meaning of leaping is ? 

A. Jumping

B. Slowing down

C. Going up

D. Making changes

12. The meaning of Brawling is ? 

A. To quarrel

B. A change

C. Continuous

D. Energetic

13.” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth ” 

Its hits over rocks and rose banks means ? 

A.It experiences both good and bad on the way to the destination.

B. It never mind of passage

C. The passage of river in youth stage is very easy to flow

D. None of the above

14. ” River, river! Swelling river!

On you rush through rough and smooth;

Louder, faster, brawling, leaping.

Over rocks, by rose-banks, sweeping

Like impetuous youth ”  

The meaning of impetuous is ? 

A. Perfect

B. Matching

C. Comparing

D. Acting quickly

15. ” River, river! brimming river!

Broad and deep, and still as time;

Seeming still, yet still in motion,

Tending onward to the ocean,

Just like mortal prime.” 

Brimming means ?.

A. Overflows

B. Acting is a slow manner

C. Low potential

D. Narrow

16. ” River, river! brimming river!

Broad and deep, and still as time;

Seeming still, yet still in motion,

Tending onward to the ocean, 

Just like mortal prime.” 

In this stanza the river is compared with ? 

A. End stage of human being

B. Mature stage of human being

C. Spritual human being

D. Rich human being

17. ” River, river! brimming river!

Broad and deep, and still as time;

Seeming still, yet still in motion,

Tending onward to the ocean, 

Just like mortal prime.” 

Here the river flow into ? 

A. Its destination

B. Into ocean

C. End Point or mouth

D. All the above

18. ” River, river! brimming river!

How humans being is compared to river in this line ? 

A. Human being of high potential

B. Human slowing down his actual potential

C. Human beings getting into spritual state

D. None of the above

19.” Broad and deep, and still as time; ” 

How river is compared to life ? 

A. Life begining to accept everything

B. When life meets the realties

C. Facing all the problems

D. Spritual life

20. ” Just like mortal prime.” 

This line indicates ? 

A. End of life

B. Man attaining blessings

C. The man is in the best age of his life.

D. Divine part of life

21. ” River, river! headlong river!

Down you dash into the sea, _

Sea that line hath never sounded,

Sea that sail hath never rounded,

Like eternity. ”  

How life is compared in this stanza ? 

A. Spritual state

B. End stage of life

C. Philosophical stage of life

D. All the above

22.” Sea that line hath never sounded, ” 

This line indicates ? 

A. It is joining with sea in all its quietness.

B. The sound of the river is incomparable to the sea

C. The waves of the sea

D. The silent nature of river

23. ” Sea that sail hath never rounded, ” 

What poet wanted to say to readers in this line ?

A. Ship that rounded the entire sea never comes to river mouth

B. Ship can never round the entire sea

C. Ship that round the entire sea starts with headline of river

D. None of the above

24. ” Sea that sail hath never rounded,

Like eternity. “

How poet compares life with sail ? 

A. Life has its end

B. Life has no end

C. Life has its destination like sail

D. Spritual path of life

25. ” Down you dash into the sea ” 

How life is compared in this line ?

A. Life merging with the universe

B. Mature path of life

C. Understanding the meaning of life

D. The immortal path of life

26.” Sea that line hath never sounded,

Sea that sail hath never rounded ” 

The figure of speech used in this line is ? 

A. Personification

B. Simile

C. Repitation

D. Anaphora

27. ” Bright you sparkle on your way;

 O’er the yellow pebbles dancing,

Through the flowers and foliage glancing,

Like a child at play ” 

The rhyming scheme of this stanza is ? 

A. aabb

B. abab

C. aaab

D. abba

28. ” Through the flowers and foliage glancing,

Like a child at play ” 

The figure is speech used in this line is ?

A. Personification

B. Metaphor

C. Simile

D. None of the above

29 ” yellow pebbles dancing “

The figure of speech used here is ? 

A. Imagery

B. Personification

C. Alliteration

D. Simile

30. “Sea that sail hath never rounded,

Like eternity.”

The figure of speech used is ? 

A. Simile

B. Metaphor

C. Anaphora

D. Repitation

31. ” Seeming still, yet still in motion ” 

The figure of speech used is ? 

A. Personification

B. Anaphora

C. Alliteration

D. Refrain

32. i) Swelling river

ii) Brimming river

iii) Mortal prime

iv) impetuous youth. 

These words indicates which figure of speech ? 

A. Metaphor

B. Simile

C. Alliteration

D. Epithet

33. ” Through the flowers and foliage glancing,” 

” On you rush through rough and smooth ” 

The figure of speech used here is 

A. Imagery

B. Metaphor

C. Simile

D. Personification

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