NIOS Class 12 English Chapter 18 Solution – Night of the Scorpion
NIOS Class 12 English Solution Chapter 18 Night of the Scorpion . NIOS Class 12 English Chapter 18 Question Answers Download PDF. NIOS Class 12 English Notes.
NIOS Class 12 English Chapter 18 Solution
Board |
NIOS |
Class |
12th (Higher Secondary) |
Subject |
English |
Topic |
Question Answer, Solution, Notes |
18.1.
1.) yes, it was dark night.
2.) yes, it had been raining for long ten hours.
18.2.
1.) ten hours of steady rain drove the scorpion inside the house.
2.) the scorpion crawled beneath a sack of rice.
3.) The word ‘flash’ means- (ii) a quick and sudden action.
4.) he calls the tail diabolic because it leaves poison to the person it stings.
18.3.
1.) the peasants came into the house.
2.) the scorpion is referred to as the evil one in the third line.
3.) the peasants said the name of god a hundred time to paralyse the scorpion.
4.) the shadows of the giant scorpion were thrown on the walls.
5.) The phrase ‘clicked their tongues’ expresses(iii) the peasants’ failure to find the scorpion.
6.) simile- peasants came like swarm of flies.
Metaphor- giant scorpion shadows.
18.4.
1.) a) ‘they said’ has been repeated six times.
b) they are here peasants.
c) they wanted the scorpion to sit still because they believed with the movement of it the poison was spread over the body in the mother’s body.
2.) i) may he sit still,
ii) may the sins of the previous birth be burnt away.
iii) may the suffering decrease the misfortunes of next birth.
iv) may the sum of evil become diminished.
v) may the poison purify the flesh.
18.5.
1.) (iii) because the father was deeply concerned.
2.) the mother felt relieved because the scorpion bit her and spared her children.
1.) ‘I’ is the poet here in the poem.
2.) Mother loves her children more than herself. She wants to protect her children from every kind of pain.