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प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner and pick out the similes used in the poem. Which one do you like the most? Why?
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उत्तर
Similes used in this poem are :
- ‘And charging along like troops in a battle’.
- ‘Fly as thick as driving rain’
I like the second one the most because the poet says all the sights of hills and plains fly as quickly as a drop of rain following another drop in a storm.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Choose the rhyming words from the box and write them in the correct blanks.
crocodile, Nile, ______ ,______
- file
- din
- toss
- nail
- while
- paws
- thin
Read these lines and answer the question given below.
And pour the water of the Nile
What is the Nile? In which country is it?
How does the crocodile’s tail look?
What does ‘improve his tail’ mean?
Fill in the table.
Contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe (').
| It’s | It is |
| Doesn’t | |
| There’s | |
| You will | |
| That’s | |
| I have | |
| He’d | |
| Aren’t | |
| He has | |
| Won’t | |
| Can not |
What do you think the poem is about?
What solution did he arrive at for the mystery that he found?
Read the poem line and answer the question given below.
But wondered much and sorrowed more
Because it hung behind him.
- What was he wondering about?
- What does the word ‘it’ refer to here?
Read the poem line and answer the question given below.
| ‘He mused upon this curious case’ |
What is the figure of speech used in this line?
Fill in the table with the appropriate poem lines. A few lines may be used more than one time.
| Pick the line or lines that | |
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1. suggest the sage lacked practical common sense |
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2. make the poem humorous |
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3. show the clowning movements of the sage |
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4. that are actually funny but have a serious tone |
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