EWS · FREE YOUTUBE PRACTICE
Literature: Read, Notice and Explain · Separate Answers
මුලින් වැඩපත්රය කර, පසුව පිළිතුරු සසඳන්න.
Open questions may have more than one correct answer. Models show one suitable response.
A. Read the original EWS poem
1. (a) at a gate
The first line places the speaker at the gate.
2. (b) shy
The speaker holds a shy hello.
3. (c) a friend's wave
The wave is followed by the disappearance of fear.
B. Find evidence
4. street / feet
Their ending sounds rhyme.
5. Model: morning hurried down the street.
Also accept: hope walked softly at my feet. Abstract ideas are given human actions.
6. softly
It describes how hope walked.
C. Explain and create
7. Model: The speaker changes from feeling shy and afraid to feeling hopeful after a friend waves.
Accept a supported explanation.
8. Model: It suggests that a small friendly action can begin a friendship because one wave gives the speaker hope.
Other interpretations are valid when supported by the poem.
9. Model: Hope is a feeling, so it cannot physically walk; the poet gives it a human action.
This explains personification.
10. Model: The wind whispered through the trees.
Accept another meaningful example of personification.