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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? - English

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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?

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The miserly ant says this to the silly cricket.

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पाठ 4.2: The Ant and the Cricket - Exercise [पृष्ठ ११८]

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पाठ 4.2 The Ant and the Cricket
Exercise | Q A. 6. b) | पृष्ठ ११८

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

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

Add another word that rhymes with it.


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?


Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,

Explain the second line.


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

Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,

Explain the second line.


If given a chance, who would you want to be-the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer.


What metals are obtained from ores and mines? Iron ore.


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Whose task is referred to as ‘our task’ here?


Read the poem and find the line for the following poetic device or write your own example.

Personification.


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 never grows leaves,
Not in the winter, spring, summer, or fall.
It just sits there never getting small or ever-growing tall.

  1. What does ‘it’ refer to?
  2. In what way the tree is a mystery?

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