CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LITERATURE

CLASS 9

ON KILLING A TREE

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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

Sam is a woodcutter.He blows his axe and cuts a branch from a mango tree.Which words do narrate the tree’s condition exactly?

A	Broken twigs
B	Uprooted tree
C	Grown-up branches
D	Bleeding bark

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Bleeding bark” refers to the area on the tree trunk where it has been hit with the axe. It bleeds because the wood cutter has wounded the tree by cutting and chopping it.

Detailed explanation-2: -’Bleeding bark’ means the twigs which are cut mercilessly. They leave a liquid substance. If any part of the human body is cut, it starts bleeding. In the same way, the liquid substance comes out from the branch of a tree. Human beings’ axe makes it bleed.

Detailed explanation-3: -Personification used in the poem “On Killing a Tree": On “Killing” a Tree-the tree has been personified from the title till the end of the poem. “has grown” “Slowly consuming the earth"

Detailed explanation-4: -The bleeding bark will heal and grow out from earth as a sapling of the tree. Was this answer helpful?

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