Zoo → Jungle → Zoo
The textbook gives away the shape before you start.
↳ A set question — and the answer is 1/4/5 against 2/3.
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A Tiger in the Zoo · Class 10 English · First Flight Poetry
English 3 topics 132 leveled MCQs 60 flashcards 4 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Vivid, Velvet, and Raging
Stanza one, in three details.
↳ Beautiful, silent, and furious. All in four lines.
“The Few Steps”
Notice how his world is measured.
His territory is given as a number of steps — and the number is few.
↳ The cruelty is in a measurement, not an adjective.
Two Sorting Tasks
The textbook asks you to make lists.
↳ Never hand in the lists alone.
What He Does in the Cage
Column one.
↳ Six verbs — and not one of them does anything to anything.
What He Should Be Doing
Column two.
↳ Five verbs — and every one of them acts on a world.
📖 Smart notes
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1
Cage, Jungle, Cage
Five stanzas that travel: a tiger pacing a few steps of concrete, then two stanzas of the jungle he ought to be in, and then back to the bars for good. Leslie Norris never says the word 'cruel' once.
- The poem is by Leslie Norris and has five stanzas of four lines each.
- The textbook's own headnote gives the shape away: the poem starts at the zoo, goes out to the jungle, and comes back to the zoo again, and s…
- Stanzas one, four and five are the zoo. Stanzas two and three are the jungle — and the jungle stanzas are the only ones that do not actually…
~25 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
2
Two Columns: Velvet Against Concrete
The textbook asks students to sort the poem's words into two columns — the cage and the wild. Do it, and the poem's argument is sitting there in the vocabulary, with no comment attached.
- The textbook's first task asks for two sorting exercises — the words describing the tiger's movements in the cage and in the wild, and then…
- In the cage the verbs are: stalks, stalking, locked, ignoring, hears and stares. In the wild they are: lurking, sliding, snarling, baring an…
- Every cage verb either goes nowhere or does nothing to anything. Every wild verb acts on a world — grass to slide through, houses to snarl a…
~26 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
3
Quiet Rage, Brilliant Stars
Twice in this poem a word is used again a line later, and each time the second use changes the first. This topic is about those two repetitions, the light rhyme that holds the stanzas together, and what the poem finally…
- The textbook's second question points to two places where a word is repeated a line later — pads of velvet quiet followed by his quiet rage,…
- In the first pair, 'quiet' moves from the outside of the tiger to the inside. It first describes how softly he moves and then describes his…
- In the second pair, 'brilliant' links the caged animal to the free sky. His eyes have lost none of their brightness, and the only other thin…
~27 min · full explanation, examples & memory tricks in the app
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132 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
This poem is printed at the end of the second prose chapter of First Flight, beside a lesson about Nelson Mandela. Who wrote it?
Beginner
A Robert Frost
B Leslie Norris
C Rainer Maria Rilke
D Peter Niblett
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Leslie Norris
Rilke and Niblett wrote the two poems printed beside it.
The textbook's headnote describes the shape of this poem before the reader begins. What shape does it give?
Intermediate
A It travels out to the jungle in the middle and then comes back to the cage
B From the jungle to the zoo and no further
C From night to morning in a single place
D From the tiger's birth to his capture
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It travels out to the jungle in the middle and then comes back to the cage
And it asks students to identify which stanzas are which.
Which stanzas of the poem describe the zoo?
Intermediate
A The first and the second only
B The third, the fourth and the fifth
C Only the last stanza
D The first, the fourth and the fifth
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The first, the fourth and the fifth
The jungle occupies stanzas two and three.
Counting the whole poem from the tiger's first steps to his stare at the night sky, how many stanzas are there?
Beginner
A Four
B Five
C Three
D Six
Show answer & explanation
Five
Four lines in each of them.
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