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1. 1.

   Look at this picture carefully. What elements do you think give an eerie and mysterious quality to the picture?

   

2. 2.

   Tick the correct answer.

   1. Where had the Traveller come?
      1. to a dwelling in a forest
      2. to a mansion in a city
      3. to a turret of a cathedral
   2. Why had the Traveller come to the place?
      1. to seek revenge against the listeners
      2. to ask the listeners for shelter
      3. to keep his promise
   3. Which figure of speech has been used in the line 'Of the forest's ferny floor'?
      1. personification
      2. alliteration
      3. repetition
3. 3.

   What do these suggest in the poem?

   1. the forest's ferny floor
   2. the bird
   3. the turret
4. 4.

   What signs of life are depicted in the poem?
5. 5.

   Who do you think the listeners are? Why are they phantom-like?

6. 6.

   Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair,
   That goes down to the empty hall,
   Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken
   By the lonely Traveller's call.

   1. Who stood thronging on the stair? Why was the stair 'dark'?
   2. What is the meaning of the word 'hearkening'? Who was hearkening?
   3. Who stirred and shook the ir? What does the stirring and shaking of the air suggest?
   4. Use the adjective 'lonely' in a sentence of your own.