Imp Question For All Chapters – Balbharati English Class 6
The Silver House
Short Questions
What is the “silver house” in the poem?
Answer : The moon.
What shape is the silver house?
Answer : Round.
How long does it take to build the silver house?
Answer : Two weeks.
How long does it take to pull it down?
Answer : Two weeks.
Who lives in the silver house?
Answer : A lonely man.
What should you do if the silver house is not in the sky?
Answer : Go to bed.
What does the word “crown” mean in the poem?
Answer : A silver coin.
Find one pair of rhyming words from the poem.
Answer : “sky” and “by” (or any other from the poem).
What does the phrase “draw the window blind” mean?
Answer : Pull down the window cover.
Who wrote the poem “The Silver House”?
Answer : John Lea.
Long Questions
1. What does the poet mean by “silver house in the lovely sky”?
Answer : The poet is referring to the moon. It looks like a bright silver house in the night sky.
2. Why does the poet say the man in the moon is lonely?
Answer : The moon appears alone in the sky, and people imagine a man living there by himself.
3. What happens to the silver house after four weeks?
Answer : The moon completes its cycle. It grows for two weeks (waxing) and then disappears over two weeks (waning).
4. What is the main idea of the poem?
Answer : The poem describes the phases of the moon in a creative way, imagining it as a house that is built and taken down.
5. How does the poet create a sense of mystery in the poem?
Answer : The poet says no one knows the name of the man in the moon, making him seem mysterious. The changing shape of the moon adds to the mystery.
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