Pike

Ted Hughes

1. Who is the "Zoo Laureate"?

Ans: Ted Hughes is the “Zoo Laureate’.

2. Why is ted Hughes culled a Zoo Laureate? 

Ans: Ted Hughes is called a Zoo Laureate because he loved animals very much and wrote about them.

3. What kind of fish is a pike?

Ans: The pike is a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed nose and large teeth.

4. How is a pike?

Ans: A pike is a long-bodied predatory freshwater fish with a pointed nose and large teeth.

5. What is the color of the pike?

Ans: The color of the pike is golden and deep green.

6. What is the nature of the pike?

Ans: Pike is violent in nature.

7. What does the pike symbolize?

Ans: The pike symbolizes the inborn violent nature of human beings.

8. What do you understand by the phrase "Killers from the egg"?

Ans: By the phrase "Killers from the egg", we understand the inborn killing nature of the pike.

9. How many pikes were in the aquarium? 

Ans: There were three pikes in the aquarium.

10. How many size do you find in 'pike' of the fish, pike?

Ans: Five different sizes of pikes are found in the poem “Pike” (3″, 4″, 4.5″, more than 2′ and Immense).

11. How long were the three pikes kept in the glass jar? 

Ans: The three pikes kept in the glass jar were about three, four and four and a half inches long.

12. It was as deep as England'- What type of figurative speech does the line represent? 

Ans: The line 'It was as deep as England' represents both simile and hyperbole.