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The poet advises the people not to speak_____________.
Spanish
English
French
Any language
What kind of a moment would it be when everyone is silent?
Terrible
Exotic
Painful
Unforgettable
'Sudden strangeness' is one of the following poetic devices _______________.
Alliteration
Personification
Repetition
Simile
Fishermen in the cold sea would not harm _________________.
Mermaids
Tortoises
Whales
Seahorse
Who would look at his hurt hands?
The man gathering salt
The man gathering stones
The man picking rags
Grave digger
The types of wars the poet talks about are ____________________.
green wars, wars with gas, wars with fire
technology war
verbal war
cold war
What, according to the poet, would interrupt the sadness of man’s life?
great laughter
huge silence
arguments
fights
According to the poet, what are we threatening ourselves with?
death
robbery
attack
birth
The poet advocates the balance of nature to be __________________.
ignored
not maintained
maintained
destroyed
‘Have no truck with death’ means ________________________.
will not die of the truck accident
remove poverty and illiteracy
have no association or deal with death
will not drive a truck
The poet of ‘Keeping Quiet’ is _____________________.
P.B.Shelley
Pablo Neruda
John Keats
Kamala Das
When the poet says ‘we will’ count to twelve he means ___________________.
his wife
his friends
his family
entire humanity
‘Fishermen not harming whales’ means _________________.
not causing extinction of whales
not disturbing balance in nature
not going for fishing
not disturbing the sea
According to the poet wars that are fought have no ______________________.
survivors
fighters
planes
missiles
What will counting up to twelve help us with?
introspecting, achieving harmony & brotherhood
achieving goals and ambition
fulfilling wishes
winning a race
The poet evokes a symbol in order to invoke that there can be life even with stillness. The symbol is __________________.
storm
moon
earth/seasons
stars
According to the poet we are single-minded about ______________________.
death
keeping our lives moving
inactivity
keeping silence
"perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness" What is the 'sadness' that the poet refers to?
preoccupation with death
remaining idle
causing wars
never understanding ourselves
Which literary device is used in the line "let’s stop for one second, and not move our arms so much"?
Simile
Metaphor
Pun
Irony
What is the figure of speech used in the line "let’s not speak in any language, let’s stop for one second"?
Pun
Anaphora
Euphemism
Metonymy
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