The Fox uses words only
He never climbs the tree.
No chasing, no climbing, no snatching. The Fox stands on the ground and talks, and the food comes down to him. That is the whole method of the poem.
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The Raven and the Fox · Class 6 English · Poorvi
English 3 topics 87 leveled MCQs 45 flashcards 6 games Free
Shared by a Veda teacher · Generated with Veda AI · Oct 2026
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Why the request is the trap
Singing and dropping are one move.
A beak holding food cannot open without letting go. So the moment the Raven agrees to sing, he has already given the morsel away. The Fox only has to wait underneath.
The Raven forgets what he knows
He knew about the croak.
Nothing new is discovered here. The bird has always had that voice. Being called handsome simply made the knowledge inconvenient enough to drop.
Rhyme is a sound
Your ear decides, not your eye.
Joke and croak share two letters and rhyme perfectly. Word and sword look like a pair and do not rhyme at all. Spelling has no vote in this.
The poem is built in couplets
Two lines, one chime.
Line one with line two, line three with line four, through every stanza. A pair of rhyming lines side by side is called a couplet.
A test for any rhyme
Cover the start.
Hide everything before the last vowel and say what is left. Pride leaves ide, eyed leaves ide. Same ending, so the two words rhyme.
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The Poem: The Raven and the Fox
A fox wants what a raven is holding. He cannot reach it, so he praises the bird instead, and the bird opens his beak to prove him right.
- Mr Raven sits on a branch holding a morsel of food, and Reynard the Fox stands below wanting it badly.
- The Fox cannot climb and does not try. He uses words instead, which is the whole method of the poem.
- He praises the Raven's feathers and calls him handsome, then suggests that his singing would make the other birds crown him.
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Words at Work: Rhymes, Opposites and Sounds at the Front
Why the poem's line endings chime in pairs, how a word can be turned into its exact reverse, and what happens when neighbouring words share a first consonant.
- This poem rhymes in couplets: line one chimes with line two, line three with line four, right through all four stanzas.
- A rhyme lives in the sound of the ending, not the spelling, which is why joke and croak rhyme although they share only two letters.
- Spelling can also mislead the other way. Word and bird look unalike and rhyme, while word and sword do not rhyme at all.
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Speak, Listen and Write about Flattery
Retelling a poem as a story, giving it an ending of your own, and writing a conversation in which one of the two characters cannot say a word.
- Retelling a poem as prose means keeping the events and the reasons while letting go of the rhyme and the line breaks.
- A retelling still needs the small facts: the branch, the morsel, the flattery, the croak, the fall.
- A new ending has to grow from the same story. Anything you change must still be possible for the characters you were given.
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87 questions laddered from warm-up to topper-level, each with an explanation. A taste:
Where is the Raven sitting when the poem begins?
Beginner
A Inside a nest built high in the woods
B On a limb, which is a branch of a tree
C On a low wall beside the fox's den
D On the ground among the fallen leaves
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On a limb, which is a branch of a tree
Perched upon a limb. Limb here simply means branch.
Why does the Fox use words rather than climbing?
Intermediate
A He is too polite to take food without asking first
B He has injured a leg earlier on in the story
C He wants the other birds to witness what he does
D He cannot reach the branch, so talking is all he has
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He cannot reach the branch, so talking is all he has
The whole method of the poem follows from the fact that he cannot climb.
The Fox tells the Raven that other birds would call him ____.
Beginner
A King
B friend
C wise
D handsome
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King
Flattery works better when it offers a position, not only a compliment.
A boy is praised loudly and then asked for his sweets, which he gives away. Which character is he like?
Intermediate
A Reynard, who plans before he speaks
B The birds of the woods, who never appear
C The Raven, who opens his beak to perform
D The poet, who watches from outside
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The Raven, who opens his beak to perform
Pleased first, careless second. That is the Raven's order exactly.
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