North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers'School set the boys free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the story from which this part is taken.
B.What figure of speech is used in this passage?
C.What tone does the quoted passage set for the whole story?I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,"
And that has made the difference."
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.
B.What additional meaning do the two roads have?
C.What dilemma is the speaker facing?
A.James Joyce, Araby
B.Personification
C.This passage sets a tone of melancholy. The scene is drab, desolate and lifeless.
