(a) How did every tongue appear to be? (b) Why couldn’t “we” speak? (c) What is the synonym of the word ‘speak’ in the passage?

Question

Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow:

And every tongue, through utter drought, 

Was withered at the root; 

We could not speak, no more than if 

We had been choked with soot.

Questions 

(a) How did every tongue appear to be? 

(b) Why couldn’t “we” speak? 

(c) What is the synonym of the word ‘speak’ in the passage?

Answer 1

(a) It appeared to be withered at the root. 

(b) It happened so because we had been choked. 

(c) utter