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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below. I drive past the house almost every day. The house seems to be a bit brighter.

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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.

  1. To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
  2. Pick out the alliterated words in the 2nd line.
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उत्तर

  1. ‘I’ refers to the poetess, Nadia Bush.
  2. The alliterated words in the second line are a bit brighter.
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अध्याय 7.2: The House on Elm Street - Exercise [पृष्ठ २०३]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
अध्याय 7.2 The House on Elm Street
Exercise | Q A. 2. | पृष्ठ २०३

संबंधित प्रश्न

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.”

How does she take life?


She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief.

Pick out other alliterated words from the poem.


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.

Whom did the cricket want to meet? Why?


Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.

He wished only to borrow,
He’d repay it tomorrow.

Give more examples of rhyming words from the poem.


Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal, or oil.


And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.
Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?


Based on the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Their hands are ours, and in their lines, we read
A labour not different from our own.

  1. Who does ‘their’ refer to?
  2. What does the poet mean by ‘lines we read’?
  3. What does not differ?

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.

  1. What outrages the innocence?
  2. Who are not foreign?
  3. What is not strange?

The poem ‘No men are foreign’ has a greater relevance in today's world. Elucidate.


Where is the house located? Why is it a mysterious place?


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