Stanza 1
Two images, pulling opposite ways.
↳ Which is why the stanza is not saying the same thing twice.
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A Friend Found in Music · Class 9 English · Kaveri
English 3 topics 101 leveled MCQs 65 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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To the Core
Three words doing real work.
It means to the innermost part — and marks the difference between a passing pleasure and something that arrives at the centre of a person.
↳ And **moves me** is figurative: not motion, but strong feeling.
Stanza 2
Not a list. A sequence.
↳ It ends with an outcome, not a feeling.
The Poem's Feeling Phrases
Two up, one down.
↳ A poem genuinely about being low would have given the low mood more room.
Fit, Not Definition
A dictionary will not settle these.
Each sentence offers two words close enough in meaning that only the context can decide between them.
↳ Which is why the exercise gives whole sentences rather than isolated words.
Nostalgia, Not Elation
Direction, not intensity.
The giveaway is transporting back. Nostalgia is a wistful return to something past.
↳ The sentence is about where the feeling points.
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1
The Poem, Stanza by Stanza
Twelve lines in which one word is repeated eight times. This topic works through the ocean and the rhythm, the therapy and the lift, the friend who arrives last — and the metaphors, the rhyme scheme, the mood and the spe…
- The poem is by Bryanna T. Perkins, and it has three stanzas of four lines each.
- Stanza 1 calls music the ocean that pulls her to the shore and the rhythm that moves her to the core.
- Stanza 2 calls music the therapy she needs when she feels blue, and says it lifts her spirits so that she pulls through.
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Feeling Words, and Phrasal Verbs
Three phrases from the poem sorted into happiness and sadness, four emotions to choose between near-synonyms, what happens when a verb takes a preposition, six verbs built from one word — and the Critical Reflection extr…
- The poem's positive phrases are lifts my spirits and most cheerful; its negative phrase is feel blue.
- In the four sentences, the answers are nostalgia, anguish, melancholy and jubilant.
- A phrasal verb has two parts — a verb plus a preposition or adverb — and together they mean something neither means alone.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
The Skills Work of This Poem
A listening task answered by guessing first, a conversation about a santoor that models how a problem is actually solved, a role play with four positions, an invitation letter to grandparents, and two Indian traditions o…
- The six listening questions are answered by guessing first, and the recording is then played to check and correct.
- The two speakers are a mother and her son, the setting is a music centre about to close, and the instrument is the santoor.
- The problem is the irregularity of the class — the teacher attends only twice a week — and the failed solution was watching videos.
~28 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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101 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
A student says the first stanza makes the same point twice. Which observation corrects them?
Advanced
A The two images are drawn from different seasons
B One image is a simile and the other a metaphor
C The ocean draws her outward while the rhythm reaches inward
D The second image belongs to the following stanza
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The ocean draws her outward while the rhythm reaches inward
Between them they claim the whole range: out of herself, and to her centre.
Which pair of images opens the poem?
Intermediate
A A therapy and a friend
B An ocean and a therapy
C A rhythm and a friend
D An ocean and a rhythm
Show answer & explanation
An ocean and a rhythm
The therapy comes in the second stanza and the friend in the third.
What does the phrase about being moved 'to the core' establish?
Advanced
A That the effect reaches the innermost part, not merely the surface
B That the speaker is describing a physical sensation
C That the music is played at a great volume
D That the experience lasted only a short time
Show answer & explanation
That the effect reaches the innermost part, not merely the surface
The difference between enjoying a song and being changed by one.
Why is 'moves me' not a statement about motion?
Advanced
A It describes the speaker walking towards the shore
B It refers to moving house, as the phrasal verbs later do
C It is a printing error for another word entirely
D It uses the sense of move that means to cause strong feelings
Show answer & explanation
It uses the sense of move that means to cause strong feelings
Move also means to change position, to make progress and to take action.
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