CLASS 10
THE BALL POEM
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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They are not as colourful as the boy’s ball
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The other balls are very hard for the boy
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The boy has shared many fond memories with the lost ball
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The other ball cost many dimes
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Detailed explanation-1: -He does not offer him money to buy another ball because according to him, money or another ball is worthless. The boy was trying to understand his first responsibility as he had lost something, which could not be brought back.
Detailed explanation-2: -Please find the answer. Through this phrase, the poet wants to suggest that it is useless to tell the boy not to cry over the lost ball and he can buy other ball. It is difficult to console the boy as he had a long association with the lost ball and he wanted it back. Regards.
Detailed explanation-3: -v. Apostrophe-It is a literary device in which a physically absent person is addressed. The poet addresses the boy who was not physically present with him-“Balls, balls will be lost always, little boy."
Detailed explanation-4: -This poem is about losing something which we love and then learning to grow up. It is about a little boy, who in his young life, for the first time, is learning what it is like to experience grief after the loss of a much-beloved possession which is here his ball.