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प्रश्न
Where are the final decisions taken?
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उत्तर
The final decisions are taken in a silent room.
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And shining morning face, creeping like snail
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- How does the boy go to school?
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And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
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- What does he do to show his wisdom?
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Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea...
Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.
To follow knowledge like a sinking star.
Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
… I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and
know not me.
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Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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Why was the rider in a hurry?
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To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart’s desire, Perched him!’
