Adventures of Toto & Rain on the Roof

• English
• Secondary Education

Expected Learning Outcomes

I will be able to:

•  Make inferences based on comprehension of the text and attempt questions
  
• Justify that all animals can’t adapt themselves to human ways of life by quoting example of Toto.
  
• Analyse how nature brings solace to poet’s mind.
  

"And the melancholy darkness
Gently weeps in rainy tears. "
Identify the poetic device

1. Alliteration
2. Simile
3. Transferred Epithet
4. Repetition

Who are the darling dreamers in the poem, "Rain on the Roof"?

1. Poet's siblings
2. Poet's parents
3. Poet's friends
4. Raindrops

What does the poet attach the darkness with?

1. joyful mood
2. sadness
3. Soothing
4. ecstatic

Which figure of speech is used in ‘patter’ and ‘tinkle’?

1. Simile
2. Metaphor
3. Personification
4. Onomatopoeia

What is a bliss for the poet?

1. Bathing in the rain
2. Getting a lot of money
3. Going to the office in rain
4. Lying on the bed in a joyful mood

“Toto was a pretty monkey.” In what sense is Toto pretty?

Great deal of patience and skill is required to train animals to acquire non-destructive behaviour. How can this statement be proven correct in reference to Toto?

Describe Grandfather's journey to Saharanpur along with Toto.

What is the effect of the sound of rain on the heart and mind of the poet?

Why does the poet call sound of the rain as 'refrain'?

Now, I CAN:
Justify that all animals can’t adapt themselves to human ways of life and
Analyse how nature brings solace to poet’s mind.

1. Agree
2. Strongly agree
3. I need some help
4. Not sure