The Kite Poem Important Questions Class 6 Honeysuckle English
Short Answer Type Questions
Question 1. What happens if the kite gets caught in the branch of a tree?
Answer
When the kite comes down too low, its string gets caught in the branches of a tree and the bright and beautiful new kite turns into a tattered and torn piece.
Question 2. How does the kite look when it flies in the sky?
Answer
The kite looks bright in the clear blue sky when it flies.
Question 3. What is the time for the kite to take rest?
Answer
The time for the kite to take rest is when the wind falls. At that time, it waits for the wind to blow so that it can fly again in the sky.
Question 4. List out the action words in the poem, dive, dip, snaps.
Find out the meaning of these words.
Answer
Soars, rides, climbs, pulls, falls, run, blows, goes, see flaps, fill.
Student should consult “Word Meaning” For meanings of these words.
Question 5. What happens to the thread when it gets loose?
Answer
When the thread gets loose, the master of the kite who controls it, rolls it back.
Question 6. When does the kite lose its beauty?
Answer
The Kite loses its shining and beauty when it gets caught in the branches of a tree and becomes unable to be free from there.
Long Answer Type Questions
Question 1. Read these lines from the poem Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
The movements of the tailless kite is compared to a ship with a sail. This is called a simile. Can you suggest what who the following actions may be compared to?
He runs like (a) ……
He eats like (b) ……
She sings like (c) ……
It shines like (d) ………
It flies like (e) ………
Answer
(a) horse snail
(b) elephant
(c) canary
(d) diamond
(e) a bird.
Question 2. What are the upward movements of a kite?
Answer
The upward movements of a kite are very impressive as a new kite looks very bright in the blue sky. The kite jumps in the air and moves up in the sky. It soars high like a ship in the air, it moves upward in the air as a ship rides on the strong waves of the sea. It shakes its tail with a noise.
Question 3. What is the similarity between the kite and the ship?
Answer
When there are waves in the sea, the ship bobs up and down with the waves. It appears to ride high or seems to dive down when the waves break. Similarly the kite rises high in the sky when its wings are filled with air, but as the speed of the wind becomes slow, it takes a dip and seems to rest.
Context Based Questions
Stanza 1
How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
With a dive and a dip
It snaps its tail
Then soars like a ship
With only a sail
As over tides
Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
Explanation
A kite attracts and fascinates its viewer by its beauty. The beauty of being new and fluttering in the bright sky. Its dives and dips trailed by its tail is a treat to watch. It rides the wind as does a ship soars on the waves in an ocean. The flow of wind takes away the ship sailing with one sail is compared with the flight of a kite. Ships travels on tide so does a kite fly on wind. It goes up and down as flows the wind.
Questions
(i) What does the opening line suggests?
(ii) What makes the tail ‘snap’?
(iii) What does the ‘soar’ mean?
(iv) When is ‘crest’ reached?
(v) Who ‘seems to rest’ when wind slows down?
Answer
(i) The opening lines suggests that it was a new kite.
(ii) Due to dipping of kite in the air makes the tail ‘snap’.
(iii) The meaning of ‘soar’ is rise.
(iv) The ‘crest’ is reached when wind blow.
(v) The kite seems to rest when the wind slows down.
Stanza 2
As over tides
Of wind it rides,
Climbs to the crest
Of a gust and pulls,
Then seems to rest
As wind falls
When string goes slack
You wind it back
And run until
A new breeze blows
Explanation
When the string starts loosening up one should wind it back to avoid entangling of it. When the wind starts blowing again, it flies again. The poet compares it with the wings of a bird.
Questions
(i) What does the word ‘slack’ means?
(ii) What change ‘a new breeze’ brings to the kite?
(iii) Whose ‘wings’ fill and goes up?
(iv) What one can do when string gets lose?
(v) Give the antonym of ‘blow’.
Answer
(i) The word ‘slack’ mean is loose.
(ii) A new breeze brings changes as it makes it fly high.
(iii) Wings of kites fill and goes up.
(iv) When string gets loose, one must wind it back.
(v) Calm.
Stanza 3
And its wings fill
And up it goes!
How bright on the blue
Is a kite when it’s new!
But a raggeder thing
You never will see
When it flaps on a string
In the top of a tree.
Explanation
When a kite comes down, it gets stuck up and tom in tree. Sometimes only the sound of its flapping is heard. One might not see it when it is tom yet it flutters because of the wind.
Questions
(i) Name the poet of the. poem.
(ii) What is the name of the poem?
(iii) What happens when string gets lose?
(iv) What can’t be ‘seen by the reader?
(v) What is the meaning of ‘raggeder’?
Answer
(i) The name of the poet is Herry Behn.
(ii) The name of the poem is The kite
(iii) When its strings struck up in branches, it starts flapping.
(iv) The reader can’t see the tom kite.
(v) Rags.