Saturday, 7 April 2018

A NIGHT WITH A WOLF GRADE 7 NOTES














GRADE:    7                                                                                                                                                            SUB:ENGLISH
                                                                       NOTES
                                                            UNIT 1 SECTION   A
                                                        A NIGHT WITH A WOLF



Answer the following questions.

1.       What does the father bring to the child`s attention in the first stanza of the poem  ?
Ans: The father drew the child`s attention to the rain pouring over the roof. He also made the child to listen roaring winds.
2.       What three things does the storyteller to mention to show that danger was close at hand on the night when he was lost?
Ans: Lonely mountain, wolves  in the forest, and bears in the bushes were the images that showed danger was close at hand on the night when he was lost.
3.       What were the two things that protected him from the rough weather
Ans: The pine tree and the wet fur protected him from the rough weather.
4.       Quote the lines in which the father tells the child that it is safer to be inside the house
rather than  outside it on a stormy night?
Ans: The lines in which the father told the child that it was safer to be inside the house rather than outside it on a stormy night are
”Father`s house is a better place
When the stormy rain is pouring”
5.        The man and the beast became aware of a likeness between them. This was because both of them
Ans: Were at the mercy of the elements of nature
6.       The man and the beast knew that it was safe for them to leave their hiding place when
 they could no longer hear
Ans: The trees coming down

New words

Hark : listen
Belated: delayed
Rafter: high branches of a tree
Boughs: large branches of a tree
Pitch-dark: extremely
Bruised: injured
Fur: fairy coat of mammels

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