CLASS 11 · WOVEN WORDS · CHAPTER 20
Original student-friendly answers and sample responses for the activities on Ajamil and the Tigers.
10 worked answers · short steps first, explanations when you need them
Textbook pages Understanding the Poem
Question Understanding the Poem 1
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Explain that Ajamil is the central figure in a humorous narrative poem who encounters tigers while travelling.
Question Understanding the Poem 2
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Point to the surprising behaviour and mismatch between expected danger and what actually happens.
Question Understanding the Poem 3
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Describe the speaker’s lively, matter-of-fact narration and how it helps make the unusual events comic.
Question Understanding the Poem 4
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Identify repeated sounds, rhythm, or unusual phrasing from the text and explain how they make the poem lively.
Question Understanding the Poem 5
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Explain how the final turn surprises the reader and gives the story a comic finish.
Question Understanding the Poem 6
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Give a personal response supported by a specific event, image, or sound from the poem.
Textbook pages Try This Out
Question Try This Out 1
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Retell the main events in order, keeping the same characters and comic surprise but using ordinary prose.
Question Try This Out 2
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Select a clear, memorable scene and say which details an illustration should show and why.
Question Try This Out 3
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Suggest stressing action words, repeated sounds, and the surprising parts; explain that pace and pauses help the humour.
Question Try This Out 4
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Provide an original ending that follows from the poem’s events and preserves its playful tone.