Read the following stanza. I was then filled with bruises as a pine f

1.	Read the following stanza. I was then filled with bruises as a pine fell on my ear. I sat down on the ground to rest. A thorn then poked me. I slept on the ground frantically. Mosquitoes bit my nose. Bugs crept all over me and tickled my body.Now answer the following questions. 1) Why was he filled with bruises? 2) Why did he sit down on the ground? 3) What poked him? 4) Which line in the stanza suggests that the speaker was dreaming? 5) What do you think that thorn could be? 6) How did he sleep? 7) What does the word ’frantically’ mean?8) What crept all over his body? 9) What tickled his body? 10) Which word in the stanza gives the meaning of “an injury.”
Answer» 1) He landed on the sharp pine trees. So he was filled with bruises. 2) He sat on the ground to take rest. 3) A thorn poked him. 4) The line “I had to painfully land on these sharp pine trees.” Suggests us that he was dreaming. 5) Actually he was in a deep sleep. The thorn that poked him could be a sting of a mosquito. 6) He slept anxiously. 7) The word ‘frantically’ means ‘very anxiously’. 8) Some bugs crept all over his body. 9) The bugs which crept all over his body tickled his body. 10) bruises

Read the following stanza. I was then filled with bruises as a pine fell on my ear. I sat down on the ground to rest. A thorn then poked me. I slept on the ground frantically. Mosquitoes bit my nose. Bugs crept all over me and tickled my body.Now answer the following questions. 1) Why was he filled with bruises? 2) Why did he sit down on the ground? 3) What poked him? 4) Which line in the stanza suggests that the speaker was dreaming? 5) What do you think that thorn could be? 6) How did he sleep? 7) What does the word ’frantically’ mean?8) What crept all over his body? 9) What tickled his body? 10) Which word in the stanza gives the meaning of “an injury.”

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1) He landed on the sharp pine trees. So he was filled with bruises.

2) He sat on the ground to take rest.

3) A thorn poked him.

4) The line “I had to painfully land on these sharp pine trees.” Suggests us that he was dreaming.

5) Actually he was in a deep sleep. The thorn that poked him could be a sting of a mosquito.

6) He slept anxiously.

7) The word ‘frantically’ means ‘very anxiously’.

8) Some bugs crept all over his body.

9) The bugs which crept all over his body tickled his body.

10) bruises