Match the words in column ‘A’ with their meaning in column ‘B’:

Column ‘A’                     Column ‘B’

Striped                 to be away from home

Barred                 desire for food

Claws                   laugh at, tease

Pacing                  planning secretly

Appetite                twilight or evening

Mock                     lined

Exile                      walk

Buck                      male deer

Plotting                  sharp curved nails

Dusk                      with rods or bars

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Come or go back

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To bow

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Not sharp or pointed

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Perfume or aroma

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Challenge

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Nightmare; illusion

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Terrify

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Rods

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Merely

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Dawn

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After

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Long

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Difficult

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Sharp

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Hard

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Open

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For

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Empty; vacant

Match the following:

Column ‘A’                                                  column ‘B’

The speaker’s coat                                    go back home

The nails                                                     not afraid any longer

Zebra and gazelle                                     with lines of different colors

 ‘Easy meat’                                               not sharp and pointed

Caged animal                                            clean and clear

The water in the pool                             the meat that one does not have to hunt for

The speaker’s plan                                  no desire for food

The male deer                                         the speaker’s natural prey

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The speaker is very hungry.

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The poem is appeal for freedom.

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The tiger’s claws are sharp and pointed.

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The caged animal is the speaker in the poem.

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Bucks are afraid of caged animal in the poem.

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The pool is mud less as it is paved with stones.

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The speaker wants to return to his natural habitat.

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The speaker in the poem is happy as he enjoys freedom there.

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‘Easy meat’ means the meat that one does not have to hunt for.

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The animals come to mock at the speaker and drink water in the pool nearby.

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 The speaker’s claws are sharp because of his long walk on stoned- paved ground.

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Taking air in through the nose noisily

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Animal like a small dear, a small antelope

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The air that you take into your lungs and send out again

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A pleasant, often sweet smell

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An area that is dark and cool under or behind something

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Pond or lake/ small area of still water

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What is ‘easy meat’?

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Why are the claws blunt?

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 What is the problem with the bars?

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Why does he need to plot his return?

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Why does he smell the animals all day?

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Where does the speaker want to return?

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Why does the speaker have no appetite?

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Why does the speaker have short breath?

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Who is the speaker in the poem? Is it the poet?

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Which animal has been the speaker in the poem?

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Is the speaker in the poem happy? Why? Or Why not?

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Why is there no mud in the pool where monkeys drink water?

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Why are the buck not afraid any longer? What were they afraid before?