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Human Family Notes

This document contains 7 questions and answers about the poem "Human Family" by Maya Angelou. 1) It lists three obvious differences mentioned in the poem: some people are serious while others enjoy comedy, some believe they have lived intensely while others believe they lived in reality, some have different skin tones. 2) It provides an example of a refrain from the poem: "We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." 3) It states that the poet uses a refrain to emphasize that despite differences, we are similar and have more similarities than differences.

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Human Family Notes

This document contains 7 questions and answers about the poem "Human Family" by Maya Angelou. 1) It lists three obvious differences mentioned in the poem: some people are serious while others enjoy comedy, some believe they have lived intensely while others believe they lived in reality, some have different skin tones. 2) It provides an example of a refrain from the poem: "We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike." 3) It states that the poet uses a refrain to emphasize that despite differences, we are similar and have more similarities than differences.

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Q1 What are the obvious differences between people, according to the poet?
Write any three differences.
Ans: The obvious differences between people according to the poet are:
1. Some are serious, some thrive comedy.
2. Some have declared that they have lived their life with great depth and
intensity while some believe that they have lived in true reality.
3. Some are of different skin tones.
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Q2. A refrain is the line or lines that are repeated in a poem. Write an example of
refrain from the poem.
Ans: ‘We are more alike, my friends,
Than we are unalike.’
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Q3. Why does the poet use refrain in the poem?


ANS: The poet uses refrain in the poem to lay emphasis that we are the sam, we
have more similarities than dissimilarities.
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Q4. Figurative language ( speech) uses figures of speech – a way of saying


something other than the literal meaning of the words . For example The fourth
verse of the poem
‘I’ve sailed upon seven seas…..
Not yet one common man.’
Find one more example of figurative speech from the poem.
ANS: Another figurative speech is
‘ I know ten thousand women….
Who really were the same.
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Q5. What do you think ‘Unity in Diversity’ mean?


Ans: Unity in Diversity means that in spite of the differences in appearance,
language, custom or tradition we stand united as one.
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Q6. Identify the lines that talk about emotions. What do these lines tell us about
people?
ANS :’We love and lose in China….
And thrive on Spanish shores.
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These lines tell us that all people from different countries experience


emotions. The emotions may be different however, emotions are a part of
our life
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Q7. What is the main idea of the poem ‘Human Family’?


ANS: The theme of the poem is that in spite of the differences between
people we are all basically the same.
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Ls :12 Human Family( Notes) written by


Maya Angelou
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