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ST.

FRANCIS SCHOOL
Poem: The Violet - Literature Reader
Notebook Work
WORD SYNONYM ANTONYM
1. modest humble boastful
2. hide conceal reveal
3. bright brilliant dull
4. fair light dark
5. content satisfied dissatisfied
6. bloom blossom whither
7. arrayed order disorder
8. diffused spread collect

I. Answers to the questions from the textbook:

1. The violet that the poet saw in the valley was a lovely flower with bright and beautiful colours.
It grew in a shaded part of the valley with its head hung, as if it were shy of all the admiration
it attracted. It was content to bloom and spread its sweet perfume unnoticed by others.

2. Instead of growing in the valley, the violet could have grown in a beautiful garden where
people would have admired its beauty.

3. The poet wants to go and meet the pretty flower so that she too may learn to grow up in
humility.

II. Reference to context:


And yet it was a lovely flower
it’s colours bright and fair
it might have graced a rosy bower
instead of hiding there
a) Identify the poem and the poet of the above mentioned lines.
Ans. The name of the poem is ‘The Violet’ written by Jane Taylor.
b) Where could have the violet been instead of growing in the valley?
Ans. The violet could have grown in a beautiful garden where people would have admired its
beauty.
c) What is the rhyme scheme of the above lines?
Ans. abab.
III. Poetic Devices from the poem.
i. Alliteration: ‘hung its head’, ‘silent shade’,
ii. Consonance: Consonance is a figure of speech in which the same consonant sound
repeats within a group of words.
iii. An example of consonance is: "Traffic figures, on July Fourth, to be tough.
iv. "Its stalk was bent, it hung its head,’
v. Personification: ‘modest violet’, ‘hung its head’, ‘hiding there’
vi. Imagery: language that produces pictures in the minds of the people reading or
listening. This device is used almost everywhere in the poem.
vii. Inversion: Inversion is defined as a literary device in which the writer purposefully
words phrases or sentences in a non-traditional order.
Then let me to the valley go, This pretty flower to see’
viii. Enjambment: Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line
break.
‘That I may also learn to grow
In sweet humility.’

**********************End of notebook work************************

Understanding the Word Power


Answers to the ‘Word Power’ from the text:
 The words that may be used to describe the violet, other than the ones used by the poet,
are:
• humble • shy • reserved • bashful • demure • timid • simple • unambitious • retiring •
pleasant • pleasing • beautiful

 a red letter day


b. green with envy
c. in the pink of health
d. feeling blue
e. a grey area
f. see red
g. a white lie
h. a black mood.
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 Rhyme scheme: It is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song. It is
usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with
the same letter all rhyme with each other.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, (a)


how I wonder what you are. (a)
up above the world so high, (b)
like a diamond in the sky. (b)

The following example uses an aabb rhyme scheme. Here, the first line ends in the word
“star,” which rhymes with the final word of the second line, “are.” Since both words
rhyme with each other, they are signified with letter “a.”

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