' Fog' Question & Answer for class 10

'Fog' Imp. Question & Answer. by P.B.

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Very Short Type Questions : Mark : 1

1.       Choose the correct alternative:
(a) The poem “Fog” was written by
(i) Robert Frost
(ii) Carl Sandburg
(iii) Walt Whitman.
Ans:    (ii) Carl Sandburg.
(b) The fog is compared to
(i) cat
(ii) dog
(iii) man.
Ans:    (i) cat
  1. Who wrote the poem, “Fog”?
Ans:    Carl Sandburg wrote the poem, “Fog”.
  1. How does the fog come?
Ans:    The fog comes silently as if on little cat feet.
  1. What does the poet think the fog is like?
Ans:    The poet thinks the fog is like a cat.
  1. Does the poet actually say the fog is like a cat?
Ans:    No. The poet actually uses metaphor to show resemblance between the coming of a cat and the fog.



2.Short Type Questions : Marks : 2/3
  1. How does the poet describe the fog as if it were a living being?
Ans:    The poet says that the fog comes ‘on little cat feet’. He also says that the fog ‘sits looking over harbour and city and then moves on’. To show resemblance between the fog and a cat, the poet uses such metaphorical language that the fog is described as if it were a living being.
  1. Name the three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat.
Ans:    The three things that tell us that the fog is like a cat are – (i) the fog is said to come on ‘little cat feet’, (ii) it ‘sits looking’, and (iii) It ‘moves on’.
  1. How is the fog like a cat? What poetic device is used by the poet here?
Ans:    The fog comes silently just like a cat does. It ‘sits’ i.e. stays looking over the harbour and the city and then ‘moves on’ like a cat.
The poetic device used by the poet here is ‘metaphor’.
  1. “The fog comes
On little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbour and city
And then moves on.”
(a) Name the poet and the poem.
Ans:    The name of the poet is Carl Sandburg and the poem is “Fog”.
(b) Who is ‘it’ referred to in the third line?
Ans:    ‘It’ referred to in the third line is the fog.
(c) With what is the fog compared?
Ans:    The fog is compared with a cat.
5.What is very much specific about the fog?
Ans1) The fog is a natural phenomenon. It falls during the winter season on the cold and chilly weather. It comes suddenly and moves away very silently. It does not spare anyone- the city, the tree or the harbour.

6. What does the poet compare the fog with?
Ans2) The poet compares the fog with a cat. Like cat it arrives suddenly. It leaps over
 its prey giving it no chance of safety. And then it moves away silently.

7.What is the central theme of the poem ‘Fog’?

Ans3) A fog comes silently and moves away silently. We should learn a lesson from it. We should indulge in our duty without being loud or any disturbance for others.  

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