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प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner and pick out the similes used in the poem. Which one do you like the most? Why?
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उत्तर
Similes used in this poem are :
- ‘And charging along like troops in a battle’.
- ‘Fly as thick as driving rain’
I like the second one the most because the poet says all the sights of hills and plains fly as quickly as a drop of rain following another drop in a storm.
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Fill in the table.
Contraction is a shortened form of a word or group of words, with the omitted letters often replaced in written English by an apostrophe (').
| It’s | It is |
| Doesn’t | |
| There’s | |
| You will | |
| That’s | |
| I have | |
| He’d | |
| Aren’t | |
| He has | |
| Won’t | |
| Can not |
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Role play
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