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2. And he felt in his heart their strangeness,

Their stillness answering his cry.

While his horse moved, cropping the dark tuff,

‘Neath the starred and leafy sky;

For he suddenly smote on the door, even

Louder and lifted his head;

‘Tell them I came. And no one answered,
That I kept my word,’ he said.

a. Who are ‘he’ and ‘they’?

i. ‘He’ is the traveller and ‘they’ are the strangers.

ii. ‘He’ is the stranger and ‘they’ are the travellers.
iii. ‘He’ is the traveller and ‘they’ are the inmates of the house.

iv. ‘He’ is the inmate of the house and ‘they’ are the travellers.

b. What was strange about ‘them’?

i. There was no movement and everything was still in their house.

ii. The horse started making sound as soon as it saw them.

iii. They were screaming at the top of their lungs but no one answered.
iv. They were wandering around the starry and leafy sky.

c. Why do you think he had come there?

i. to answer his request ii. to smite on the door

iii. to lift his head iv. to keep his word

d. Choose the correct option to fill in the blank.
The given context creates a/an atmosphere with a supernatural

touch.
i. eerie ii. serious

iii. humorous iv. sad

e. Complete the sentence appropriately.

It is clear that alliteration is the poetic device used for ‘Louder and lifted his head....’

because . (Clue: explain how alliteration
applies here)

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