Hi Everyone!! This article will share The Triantiwontigongolope Questions & Answers.
This poem is written by C.J Dennis. In my previous posts, I have shared the questions & answers of Haroun Meets Iff, A Day and My Lost Dollar so, you can check these posts as well.
The Triantiwontigongolope Questions & Answers
Word Galaxy
- Spy – see
- Beetle – an insect, often large and black, with a hard case on its back and wings above
- Grub – the young form of an insect that looks like a small, fat worm
- Wattle-gum – gum obtained from a tree in the form of reddish tears or lumps
- Appetite – desire for food
- Hearty – large
- Mope – spend your time doing nothing and feeling very sorry for yourself
- Snubbish (for a nose) – short, fat and turned up at the end
- Sneer – an unpleasant look or smile
- Scuttle – to run with quick, short steps
Question 1: Read and answer the questions:
When first you come upon it, it will give you quite a scare.
(a) What does ‘it’ refer to?
Answer: ‘It’ refers to the insect Triantiwontigongolope.
(b) Why will it give you ‘quite a scare’?
Answer: It give you ‘quite a scare’ because of its appearance and ill manner.
(c) What will happen when you look for it again?
Answer: When you look for it again, it will disappear from there.
Question 2: Read and answer the questions:
But of course you have not seen it; and I truthfully confess…..
(a) What have you not seen?
Answer: We have not seen the insect.
(b) Why have you not seen it?
Answer: We have not seen it because it is poet’s imagination.
(c) What does the poet confess?
Answer: The poet confesses that he himself hasn’t seen the insect and has joked with readers.
Question 3: Read and answer the questions:
For there isn’t such an insect, though there really might have been…
(a) Which insect is being referred to here?
Answer: The insect Triantiwontigongolope is being referred to here.
(b) When do you think it ‘might have been’ existed?
Answer: A creature like Triantiwontigongolope might have existed if trees were purple.
(c) Where do you think this insect exists?
Answer: This insect exists in the poet’s imagination.
Question 4: How does the poet describe the insect’s appearance?
Answer: The poet says that the insect does not look like a spider or fly but it looks like a beetle and a bee.
Question 5: What does the poet say about the insect’s nature and behaviour?
Answer: The poet says that the insect is little shy and scary. It is very lazy and has no good manners.
Question 6: How does the poet describe the insect’s appetite and manners?
Answer: The poet says that the insect has a hearty appetite and its manners are disgraceful.
Question 7: What would happen if one scolded the insect?
Answer: If anyone scolded the insect, it would go off in shame.
Question 8: When does the insect tremble?
Answer: The insect trembles when you tickle it or tread upon its toes.
Question 9: What shows you that the insect loves itself?
Answer: The fact that it loves to be called by its name shows that it loves itself. It begins to purr when it is called out lovingly.
Question 10: How do you know that this is an imaginary creature?
Answer: We know that it is an imaginary creature because the poet himself accepts it in the last stanza of the poem that this type of insect does not exist.
Question 11: What does the speaker apologise for?
Answer: The poet apologises for making us believe that such an insect exists and for joking with the readers.
Question 12: Pick out the rhyming words in the last stanza.
Answer: Confess-address, been-green, hope-Triantiwontigongolope.
So, these were The Triantiwontigongolope Questions & Answers.