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TSD - CB - VIII - Eng - The Unicorn PDF

This document provides teaching materials on the poem "The Unicorn" for 8th standard students. It includes textual questions and answers about the poem, short answer questions, longer answer questions, and an analysis of literary devices used. The key details are that the poem describes Noah building an ark on God's instructions to save animals from a flood, and trying to get unicorns onboard but they were playing and got left behind.

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TSD - CB - VIII - Eng - The Unicorn PDF

This document provides teaching materials on the poem "The Unicorn" for 8th standard students. It includes textual questions and answers about the poem, short answer questions, longer answer questions, and an analysis of literary devices used. The key details are that the poem describes Noah building an ark on God's instructions to save animals from a flood, and trying to get unicorns onboard but they were playing and got left behind.

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TEACHER’S SUPPORT DOCUMENT

Subject: English Topic: The Unicorn Std: VIII

Textual Answers:
1. Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
a) Now God seen some sinnin' and it gave Him pain.
And He said, "Stand back, I'm going to make it rain."
He said, "Hey, brother Noah, I'll tell you what to do.
Build me a floating zoo."
i. God was pained to see his people sinning.
ii. God decided to make it rain for a very long time i.e. forty days and nights and
destroy the Earth.
iii. God told Noah to build an Ark or a floating zoo in which a pair of each kind of
animal would be housed.
iv. floating
b) Old Noah looked out into the driving rain,
Them Unicorns was hiding, playing silly games,
Kicking and splashing while the rain was pouring,
Oh, them silly Unicorns.
i. Noah knew it was time to set sail when it started raining, so he looked for the
Unicorns.
ii. The unicorns were frolicking in the water enjoying themselves and ignored Noah's
calls when he looked for them.
iii. The poet calls the Unicorns silly because they never made it on board, so we don't
see them around anymore.
iv. silly

2. Answer the following questions in 30-40 words.


a) A long time ago when the earth was in its nascent stage there were more kinds of
animals than we are able to see today. They ran around freely. The loveliest animal

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was the Unicorn.


b) Noah obeyed God by building the Ark. He finished it just as the rain started falling.
He marched the animals two by two into the Ark. He called out their names to God
as they went through.
c) Green alligators, long-necked geese, humpty-backed camels, chimpanzees, cats, rats
and elephants were sheltering in the Ark. Noah had to close the doors because it
was pouring so he could not wait for the Unicorns.
d) When the Ark started drifting with the tide, the Unicorns looked up from the rock
they were playing on and cried. But the waters came down and floated them away.

3. Answer the following questions in 100-120 words.


a) In the beginning, the earth was green and full of animals. The Unicorn was more
beautiful than any other animal. While God was making the Earth, the animals ran
around free.
But God saw that everyone was sinning all the time, so he decided to flood the
Earth. Noah was called upon by God, and God told him to build an ark, and put two
animals of each kind on it.
b) Just as the rain began to fall, Noah finished the ark, and marched in the animals two
by two, and called to God counting them off. The only animals he didn't see were
the unicorns. As Noah looked out into the misty morn, he saw the unicorns kicking
and splashing around, so he had to leave without them. The ark sailed off, the
unicorns floated away, and that's why we never see a unicorn to this day.

4. Figures of speech are words or phrases that possess a separate meaning from its
literal definition. ‘The Unicorn’ has a lot of meaning beneath what the poem says
directly. Identify the phrases/lines in the poem which correspond to the following
figures of speech.
1. alliteration bein' born
2. hyperbole There were more kinds of animals than you've ever seen.
3. imagery He marched in the animals two by two
The ark started moving, and it drifted with the tide, and
the Unicorns looked up from the rock and cried. And the

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water came up and sort if floated them away.


4. onomatopoeia roarin'
5. personification but the Unicorns were hidin’, playing silly games
6. repetition green alligators, long neck geese, humpy bumpy camels,
chimpanzees, cats and rats and elephants

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