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Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?

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प्रश्न

Who does ‘we’ refer to in first stanza?

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  • Human beings

  • Machines

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उत्तर

Machines.

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Poetry (Class 10th)
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अध्याय 5.2: The Secret of the Machines - Exercise [पृष्ठ १५०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
अध्याय 5.2 The Secret of the Machines
Exercise | Q A. 1. | पृष्ठ १५०

संबंधित प्रश्न

Strong is she in her faith and belief.
“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.

What is she strong about?


Despite the sighs and groans and moans,
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

Is she complaining about the problems of life?


A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!

Pick out the rhyming words from the above lines.


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

At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,

What made the cricket bold?


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.

What would keep him alive?


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

But we ants never borrow,
we ants never lend.

Who says these lines to whom?


Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.

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

cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.


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?

Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

It sat alone.
What happened there is still today unknown.
It is a very mysterious place,
And inside you can tell it has a ton of space,
But at the same time, it is bare to the bone.

  1. What does ‘It’ refer to?
  2. Pick out the line that indicates the size of the house?

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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