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प्रश्न
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
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उत्तर
Students do this activity on their own.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write a summary of the above passage in about 100 words.
Complete the call-outs:
A.1)
Our world is an institution
Of environmental pollution
We choose not to care
For our future generations
And I for one am guilty
For buying the hundreds of electronic gadgets
That attracts the industries to produce like maggots
environmental pollution is at the heart of our planet
The forests are dying
Wildlife is crying
Millions of fish are dying
Mother earth is sighing
Tell me is it right
That we sleep well at night
Replenishing ourselves
For tomorrow’s greedy fight
Overcrowded trains
Overloaded brains
Where is the light? What is our plight?
While the river break their banks
And greedy industries play their polluted pranks.
A.2) Find the examples that show that we do not care for our future generation
A.3) Match:
Match the lines in Column ‘A’ with the figures of speech in Column ‘B’:
| Column ‘A’ | Column ‘B’ | ||
| (i) | Our world is an institution | (a) | Personification |
| (ii) | Mother earth is sighing | (b) | Simile |
| (c) | Metaphor |
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- In ‘The Planners’ the poet describes the unstoppable force of modernisation.
- The poet talks about the replacement of natural environment by the concrete jungle.
- The poet proposes to stop modernisation.
- The poet laments helplessly.
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The living world on Rakata
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knowledge and learning
Add other related words you know to the list.
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List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
If you don’t understand something, don’t let the others know about it.
List and say whether the following statement agrees with the passage or not.
You should try to talk most of the time whenever there is a discussion.
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Read the incident again and answer the following question.
What did Gilson want the writer to bring for him?
Why did Alice follow the rabbit?
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ELFA, GLHA, ILJA, ______, MLNA
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The old man helped ______ and ______.
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What is the main idea of the story?
Recite the poem The Painter with correct intonation.
How did Miss Sullivan help Helen?
