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प्रश्न
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?
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उत्तर
The pronoun ‘you’ refer to the people.
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The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”
What does the word summer mean here?
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief.
Pick out the alliterated words from the above.
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief.
Pick out other alliterated words from the poem.
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In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the
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Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?
And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.
Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?
And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!
Do the machines serve us twenty-four hours a day?
Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.
Assonance.
Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.
Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.
- What outrages the innocence?
- Who are not foreign?
- What is not strange?
Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.
It never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.
- What does ‘it’ refer to?
- In what way the tree is a mystery?
