CLASS 10
AMANDA
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Question
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Something very precious
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An important thing
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The ultimate thing
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Anything a person likes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The poetic device used in this line’ I pattern soft dust with my hushed bare feet’ is metaphor. Here Amanda is comparing herself to an orphan child who roams here and there bare feet, leaving footprints on the dust of the street.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amanda says so because she wants to roam around in the street alone and pattern dust with bare feet. She finds silence golden and freedom is sweet. C) The speaker wants to be orphan because she yearns for leading a carefree life without any restrictions of her parents or elders. She wants solitude and peace.
Detailed explanation-3: -The phrase ‘hushed, bared feet’ is an example of transferred epithet in the poem. In the phrase, Amanda’s feet aren’t ‘hushed’ or silent. Rather, the phrase describes the silent way in which Amanda would make dust patterns with her feet as a street orphan.
Detailed explanation-4: -Amanda is fed up with her mother’s constant nagging and being told what to do. Hence, she imagines herself to be an orphan with no parental figure to control her. She wants to roam around freely and enjoy the silence that would come when there is no one around to scold her. Was this answer helpful?