Poem Comprehension - English

Poem Comprehension - English - Samacheer Kalvi

Poem Comprehension

Read the poem and answer the questions that follow.

Good Books

Good books are friendly things to own.

If you are busy they will wait.

They will not call you on the phone

Or wake you if the hour is late.

They stand together row by row,

Upon the low shelf or the high.

But if you're lonesome this you know:

You have a friend or two nearby.

Questions:

1. Which are called friends in this poem?

2. How will the books stand?

3. When will the books wake us?

4. Will they call us on phone?

5. Who will be with us if we are lonely?

Answers:

1. Books are the friends.

2. The books stand row by row on shelf.

3. The books will wake us if the hour is late.

4. No, the books will not call us on phone.

5. Books will be with us if we are lonely.

Comments

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