Question

What do the following words describe in the poem?
A) joyful
B) little
C) round

Answer 1

Hint: These words are taken from the poem ‘Ice-cream man’ by Rachel Field. The poem conveys the joy and relief brought by the ice cream man during the scorching heat of the summer days. He brings a variety of ice cream in his cart along with cold fizz drinks. The ice cream man is the all-time favourite of everyone during summer.

Complete answer:
According to the question, we need to tell the words mentioned above what they are describing in the poem. Firstly, we need to know the meaning of the describing words. These are the words that are used to provide details and information about something.

With reference of the poem,
1)Joyful- It conveys information about the sight.
From the line given in the poem, there is a joyful sight when an ice cream man fills the cones with the mounds because having ice cream on a hot summer day is exciting and enjoyable.

2) little- It is used to describe the cart.
As mentioned in the poem, there is summer in a town and heat is touching the sky. At that time an ice-cream man is roaming around in the streets of the city with his little cart in which he is having ice creams of multiple flavours as well as cold frizz drinks.

3) round- It is specifying the umbrella.
According to the poem, an ice-cream man is wandering in the streets with a cart that has one round umbrella. Under this, he is filling cones of different flavours of ice cream to give to children.

Note: Here is an important rule that you should follow while using descriptive words. Adjectives are used to specify the identity or quality of people or things and they are used prior to the noun.
For Example- He is a fluent speaker. In this, fluent is expressing the quality of a speaker.