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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.

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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.

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उत्तर

The other examples of rhyming words are sing-spring; home – come; found – ground, see – tree, bold-cold; ant – grant; rain – grain; friend – lend; light – might and. wicket – 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. 9. b) | पृष्ठ ११८

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

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?


She's a lioness; don't mess with her.
She'll not spare you if you're a prankster.

Pick out the line that has a metaphor in it.


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

Not a crumb to be found.
On the snow-covered ground.

What couldn’t he find on the ground?


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,

Why did the cricket drip and tremble?


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.


Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem?


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

Alliteration.


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.

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 your understanding of the poem complete the following by choosing the appropriate words/phrases given in brackets

This poem is about the ______ of all men. The subject of the poem is the ______ race, despite of the difference in colour, caste, creed, religion, country etc. All human beings are same. We walk on the ______ and we will be buried under it. Each and everyone of us are related to the other. We all are born same and die in the same way. We may wear different uniforms like’ ______’ during wars the opposing side will also have the same

______ like ours. We as human do they same labour with ______ and look at the world with the ______ Waging war against others as they belong to a different country is like attacking our own selves. It is the ______ we impair. We all share the same ______ We are similar to each other. So the poet concludes that we shouldn’t have wars as it is ______ to fight against us.

unity of human, dreams and aspirations, same land, our hands, unnatural, breathing body, same eyes, brotherhood, language, human-earth.

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