A Photograph (MCQ)

1. The word cardboard in the poem denotes…

• A book
• A photograph
• A paperboard
• An album

2. The photograph was clicked by whom?

• Uncle
• Aunt
• Mom
• Cousin

3. Identify the poetic device in the line ‘Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.’
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron
• Personification
• Allusion

4. The sea appears to have changed less in comparison to

• The Photograph
• Mother’s sweet face
• Transient feet
• Betty and Dolly

5. The past of the poet was…

• Mother’s Photograph
• Sea Holiday
• Mother’s Laughter
• Dresses of the girls

6. ‘This circumstance’ in the poem refers to?

• Mother’s photograph
• The past
• Laughter of Betty
• The pain due to mother’s death

7. The synonym of ‘wry’ is…

• Sad
• Happy
• Straight-forward
• Displeased
8. Identify the poetic device in the following line ‘washed their terribly transient feet.’
• Transferred Epithet
• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Pun
 Answers

1. The word cardboard in the poem denotes…

• A book
• A photograph
• A paperboard
• An album
• A photograph

2. The photograph was clicked by whom?

• Uncle
• Aunt
• Mom
• Cousin
• Uncle

3. Identify the poetic device in the line ‘Both wry with the laboured ease of loss.’
• Alliteration
• Oxymoron
• Personification
• Allusion
• Oxymoron

4. The sea appears to have changed less in comparison to

• The Photograph
• Mother’s sweet face
• Transient feet
• Betty and Dolly
• Mother’s sweet face

5. The past of the poet was…

• Mother’s Photograph
• Sea Holiday
• Mother’s Laughter
• Dresses of the girls
• Mother’s Laughter

6. ‘This circumstance’ in the poem refers to?

• Mother’s photograph
• The past
• Laughter of Betty
• The pain due to mother’s death
• The pain due to mother’s death

7. The synonym of ‘wry’ is…

• Sad
• Happy
• Straight-forward
• Displeased
• Displeased
8. Identify the poetic device in the following line ‘washed their terribly transient feet.’
• Transferred Epithet
• Oxymoron
• Simile
• Pun
• Transferred Epithet