When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

NCERT solutions for Class 8 English When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English Chapter wise Solutions

Honeydew

• Chapter-1 The Best Christmas Present in the World
• Chapter-2 The Tsunami
• Chapter-3 Glimpses of the Past
• Chapter-4 Bepin Choudahry’s Lapse of Memory
• Chapter-5 The Summit Within
• Chapter-6 This is Jody’s Fawn
• Chapter-7 A Visit to Cambridge
• Chapter-8 A Short Monsoon Diary
• Chapter-9 The Great Stone Face-I
• Chapter-10 The Great Stone Face- II
• Chapter-11 The Ant and the Cricket ( Poem)
• Chapter-12 Geography Lesson (Poem)
• Chapter-13 Macavity – The Mystery Cat (Poem)
• Chapter-14 The Last Bargain (Poem)
• Chapter-15 The School Boy (Poem)
• Chapter-16 The Duck and the Kangaroo (Poem)
• Chapter-17 When I Set Out For Lyonnesse (Poem)
• Chapter-18 On the Grasshopper and Cricket (Poem)

It So Happened

• Chapter-1 How the camel got his hump
• Chapter- 2 Children at work
• Chapter-3 The selfish giant
• Chapter-4 The treasure within
• Chapter-5 Princess September
• Chapter-6 The fight
• Chapter-7 The open window
• Chapter-8 Jalebis
• Chapter-9 The comet

NCERT Solutions for Class 8 English When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

Class –VIII English

When I Set Out For Lyonnesse

Page No: 110

1: In the first stanza, find words that show

(i) that it was very cold.

(ii) that it was late evening.

(iii) that the traveller was alone.

Ans: (i) Rime

(ii) Starlight

(iii) Lonesomeness

2:(i) Something happened at Lyonnesse. It was

(a) improbable

(b) impossible

(c) unforeseeable

(ii) Pick out two lines from stanza 2 to justify your Ans.

Ans: (i) (c) unforeseeable.

(ii) ‘No prophet durst declare;

Nor did the wisest wizard guess’

3:(i) Read the line (stanza 3) that implies the following.

‘Everyone noticed something, and they made guesses, but didn’t speak a word’.

(ii) Now read the line that refers to what they noticed,

Ans: (i) ‘All marked with mute surmise’

(ii) ‘My radiance rare and fathomless’