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प्रश्न
Discuss with your partner and pick out the rhyming words from the poem.
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उत्तर
The rhyming words in the poem are :
“witches – ditches; battle – cattle; plain – rain; eye – by; scrambles – brambles; gazes – daisies; road – load; river – forever”.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read these lines and answer the question given below.
And pour the water of the Nile
What is the Nile? In which country is it?
Find an example of alliteration in the poem.
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Alliteration: is repetition of the consonant at the beginning of two or more words in a line. Example: mother twists my ears. |
Tell the story of the poem in three or four sentences with the help of the pictures given below.
Read the poem aloud and fill in the wheel with its rhyming pair. Also try giving your own rhyming word. One is done for you.
What do you think the poem is about?
Close your eyes and think about the moving scene outside a train window.
Discuss in pairs, pick out the words related to seasons from the grid and write them in the blanks.
| C | K | S | N | O | W | S | K | Y |
| L | M | U | Y | K | E | M | H | L |
| O | S | N | S | O | T | Q | O | K |
| U | P | N | D | S | I | R | T | I |
| D | R | Y | L | E | A | V | E | S |
| R | A | I | N | W | I | N | D | M |
| S | O | T | H | U | N | D | E | R |
Was he finally successful in changing his pigtail’s position? Support your answer with a line from the poem.
Read the poem line and answer the question given below.
Irony is a figure of speech in which words are used in such a way that their intended meaning is different from the actual meaning. It may also be a situation that ends up in quite a different way than what is generally anticipated. In simple words, it is a difference between appearance and reality.
Can this poem be called an ironic poem? Justify your answer.
The summary of the poem is given.But there are some words missing. Fill in the blanks with the help of the box given below.
| faithfully | change | pigtail | round | sage | down | slack |
| out | hung | place | behind | vain | face |
Once upon a time there lived a______. He had a handsome______. He was worried and pondered over his pigtail's______. He wanted to______ it's place. He wanted it hanging at his______ He didn’t like it hanging there______ him. So he turned right and left and ______about, up and______, and in and______ but it still______ behind him. However he tried, his efforts were in______. But he didn’t______ in his efforts. Nevertheless his pigtail hung ______behind him.
