Practice Poem Summary (due To Copyright Constraints, Text Summarised) (2.2) - ICSE Class 12 English Elective - Unit 5

Practice: Poem Summary (Due to copyright constraints, text summarised)

Lesson 2.2ICSE Class 12 English Elective - Unit 5

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6 sample questions

Question 1.
Into which three stages can "Pike" be divided? Give the stanzas for each.
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Description, stories, memory.
Question 2.
What happened to the three small pike that were kept in a glass tank?
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Count down from three.
3Question 3.
How many pike were kept behind glass in the first anecdote?
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Six
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Soon there were two, then one.
4Question 4.
What was found dead among the willow-herb?
- A single pike caught by an angler
- Two large pike, one choked on the other
- A heron that had swallowed a pike
- A tench killed by a pike
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Pike show mercy to no one, not even other pike.
Question 5.
Turn the poem into a five-frame storyboard. For each frame, describe what we see and hear, in your own words, and say which stanzas it covers.
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Use light, sound and close-ups to show the change of mood across the stages.
Question 6.
In the summary, the speaker changes from someone who watches pike to someone who feels watched. Explain this change and why it matters.
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Compare where the speaker is looking at the start and at the end.

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