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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.
claws, jaws, ______ , ______
- file
- din
- caws
- 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?
Find an example of alliteration in the poem.
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Alliteration: is repetition of the consonant at the beginning of two or more words in a line. Example: mother twists my ears. |
Listen to the poem read by your teacher.
Read the poem aloud in pairs. One person reads out Raj’s words and the other reads the mother’s. Take turns and read.
What helps one win the game?
Close your eyes and think about the moving scene outside a train window.
Discuss with your partner and pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
What day is it?
- We feel thirsty on a _________.
- We use an umbrella on a _________.
- We sail paper boats on a _________.
- We fly kites on a _________.
Pin the tail on the donkey.
The summary of the poem is given.But there are some words missing. Fill in the blanks with the help of the box given below.
| faithfully | change | pigtail | round | sage | down | slack |
| out | hung | place | behind | vain | face |
Once upon a time there lived a______. He had a handsome______. He was worried and pondered over his pigtail's______. He wanted to______ it's place. He wanted it hanging at his______ He didn’t like it hanging there______ him. So he turned right and left and ______about, up and______, and in and______ but it still______ behind him. However he tried, his efforts were in______. But he didn’t______ in his efforts. Nevertheless his pigtail hung ______behind him.
