The Listeners Class 8 - Summary & Extra Questions

The Traveller stood 'perplexed and still'. Give a reason.

Throughout the poem, the poet has written lines that suggest that there was no movement a no sound. Find those lines and write in the respective box.
No Sound words/Phrases
No-Movement words/phrases

What was the only sound and movement after ' ... he smote upon the door a second time?

Pick lines from the poem that suggest that the Traveller spoke loud enough for the residents to hear clearly.

Alliteration is the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighbouring words or syllables.
Example: I bought a bit of butter.
Identify the lines in the poem in which the poet has used alliteration.

The poet has created a strange, eerie atmosphere through the use of likely words, phrases and situations. Some of the things in the poem hint at all that is branching out of the bare tree given below. Those things are written in different colours on the path of the haunted house below. Simply colour the branched-out phrases with the correct and corresponding colours.
Shows that the house is deserted 
adds up to the atmosphere’s eeriness 
suggests a medieval mansion 
confirms its solitude 
divided the world into two the living and the dead

The atmosphere plays an important role in distinguishing a scary place from one that feels safe and secure. Apart from being alone in darkness, what elements add to one’s fear? Think of a situation that gave you goose bumps and write about it in the space given below.

‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, 
 Knocking on the moonlit door; 

a. Where has the Traveller come from? 

b.    Who is he, and why has he come to the place so late at night? Give your opinion. 
 c.     If there anybody else with the Traveller? 

Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language that poets use to create a picture in the readers’ imagination. It is a symbolic way of description. The poet has used many different imageries within the poem. What imageries does the post use to describe the things in the first column of the given table? 
                         Poem elements                                                                Imagery used in the poem 
 a. The house and its surroundings 
 b. The horse 
 c. The Traveller
 d. The listeners 

And his horse in the silence champed the grasses
of the forest's ferny floor
and a bird flew up out of the turret
above the traveller's head (a) Which text is the above extract taken from? (b) Identify the figure of speech used in the second line of the stanza? (c) What is the traveller looking for?

[Half Yearly Exam (2024)]