Question

can you answer these questions

Milton Friedman argued that consumers are more likely to alter their behavior based on

changes in the unemployment rate.
short-term changes in the economy.
long-term changes in the economy.
changes in the inflation rate.

Read the lines from "The Gardner" by Rabindranath Tagore.

Have you not finished your work yet, bride? Listen, the guest has come.
Have you not lit the lamp in the cowshed?
Have you not got ready the offering basket for the evening service?

By directing the questions in the poem to a bride, the author makes the reader

visualize the setting of the wedding.
reflect on what the bride is going through.
think that the author already knows the answers.
wonder what the guest must be thinking.

What is the effect of the author’s use of apostrophe in the poem "85"?

It creates a detached effect between the readers and the author.
It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.
It causes the readers to imagine a future event.
It engages readers by addressing them directly.

Which of these are metaphors? Choose two answers.

She is the sun of my sky.
They fought like cats and dogs.
The child is as quiet as a mouse.
Her coat was as black as coal.
Life is a roller coaster.

Read the lines from "84" by Rabindranath Tagore.

Let none go back home, brothers, this morning, let none go to work
Let us take the blue sky by storm and plunder space as we run.

Which feature of a lyric poem does the repetition of the word let best illustrate?

the musical quality
the single speaker
the speaker’s emotions
the long length

Answer 1

1) long-term changes in the economy.
- Friedman’s Permanent Income Hypothesis says consumers respond more to permanent (long‑term) income changes than to transitory ones.

2) reflect on what the bride is going through.
- Addressing the bride with questions invites the reader to consider her situation and feelings.

3) It engages readers by addressing someone unknown.
- Apostrophe addresses an absent/other figure (not the reader), drawing attention to that addressee.

4) Metaphors (choose two):
- She is the sun of my sky.
- Life is a roller coaster.

5) the musical quality.
- Repetition creates rhythm and sound patterning, a key musical feature of lyric poetry.