Odd and Even
Seven stanzas, taking strict turns.
↳ ODD = out loud. EVEN = inside her head.
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Amanda! · Class 10 English · First Flight Poetry
English 3 topics 135 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Who Is Doing the Scolding?
Set question 2.
↳ Name the evidence, not just the answer.
Eleven Corrections
The whole inventory, in order.
↳ Not one of them is unreasonable on its own.
Nine Lines Against Twelve
Count the room she gets.
↳ Three escapes, nine lines, and nobody hears any of them.
The Emerald Sea
Daydream one.
↳ Two of the poem's four glossed words are in these three lines.
What Could She Do There?
Set question 5, answered plainly.
↳ 'Sole inhabitant' is the word that earns the mark.
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1
Two Voices, and a Pair of Brackets
Seven stanzas that never meet. Four of them scold a girl out loud; three of them, inside brackets, are what she is thinking instead — and the punctuation is doing most of the work.
- The poem is by Robin Klein, an Australian writer, and it is printed in First Flight. It has seven stanzas that alternate strictly between tw…
- Stanzas 1, 3, 5 and 7 are spoken aloud by an adult — almost certainly a parent, and most readers take it to be her mother. Every one of them…
- Stanzas 2, 4 and 6 are inside brackets. They are Amanda's own thoughts, and they are not spoken aloud at all.
~25 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Sea, Street and Tower
Three daydreams of nine lines in all. Each one answers the scolding that came just before it, and each is lonelier than the last.
- Each bracketed stanza is three lines long and rhymes aaa — sea, me, blissfully; street, feet, sweet; care, rare, hair. Nine lines of daydrea…
- The first is the sea. It is relaxed — languid is glossed as relaxed — and emerald green, and she is its only inhabitant, a mermaid moving sl…
- So the answer to the set question about the mermaid is that she could float about as she pleased, unhurried and blissful, with no one else i…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Amanda Herself, and the Last Stanza
How old she is, what she is really longing for, and the final four lines in which an adult accuses her of sulking and — without noticing — describes exactly what has been happening.
- The first set question asks how old Amanda is and how you know. The clearest clue is the acne, which points to early adolescence, so somewhe…
- There is other evidence to add. She has homework and a room to tidy, so she is at school; she is told to sit up straight and stop biting her…
- What she yearns for is freedom — and, more precisely, quiet. In all nine lines of daydream she never once wishes for friends, games, present…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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135 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Who wrote this poem, and in which book of the Class 10 course is it printed?
Beginner
A Robin Klein, in Footprints Without Feet
B Carolyn Wells, in First Flight
C Robin Klein, in First Flight
D John Berryman, in Moments
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Robin Klein, in First Flight
An Australian writer.
Looking at the way the seven stanzas are arranged, how are they divided between the two voices?
Intermediate
A The first four are spoken and the last three are thoughts
B The stanzas alternate between two children
C All seven are spoken by the same person
D The odd-numbered stanzas are spoken aloud; the even-numbered ones are thoughts in brackets
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The odd-numbered stanzas are spoken aloud; the even-numbered ones are thoughts in brackets
A strict alternation that never breaks.
Considering that the complaints concern homework, an untidy room, uncleaned shoes and chocolate, who is most likely to be speaking?
Advanced
A A schoolteacher
B A parent — usually taken to be her mother
C An older classmate
D A neighbour
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A parent — usually taken to be her mother
Every item on the list is a household matter.
Some readers suggest that the voice scolding Amanda belongs to a teacher rather than to a parent. Why is that unlikely?
Advanced
A Teachers never mention homework
B A teacher would have no reason to mention shoes, chocolate or an untidy room
C The poem is set during the school holidays
D The speaker calls Amanda by her first name
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A teacher would have no reason to mention shoes, chocolate or an untidy room
A parent fits all eleven complaints; a teacher fits almost none.
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