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प्रश्न
Find from the text the collocation for the following.
______ man
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उत्तर
Greedy man
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The specific meaning of word ‘anthem’ in the content of the story is _______.
Choose appropriate phrases/expressions from the extract given in the options and fill in the blank appropriately.
All their educational problems were sorted out _______ because of the funds given by an NGO.
Fill in the blank selecting the correct phrase from the alternatives given.
[be completely stumped, be broken, feel out of place, speak at length, feel at home, a sea of knowledge, broaden one’s horizon, one’s second innings, touch the hearts, keep one going]
The teacher _______ explaining the concept.
Select the appropriate figure of speech from the box given below and complete the table.
| Metaphor, Alliteration, Repetition, Personification, Inversion, Simile, Apostrophe, Onomatopoeia |
| Examples | Figure of Speech | Explanation |
| 1. Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair. | Alliteration | The close repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words |
‘Fade homeward through the humid monsoon night’.
In the above line, the weather is humid, not the night. The epithet or adjective is transferred from the weather to the night. This figure of speech is Transferred Epithet. Find out another such expression from the poem.
Homograph: Homograph is a word spelled and pronounced like another word but with a different meaning.
For example: the word ‘fast’ has two meanings. The different meanings are -
fast- hold firmly
fast- to abstain from food
fast- opposite of slow.
Go through the text again and make a list of meanings of all the homographs that are found in the text. Also, make a list of such words that you know, heard, or read somewhere.
Find more such idioms using the following key word.
fly
Look at the word and their meaning. Underline the correct alternatives.
significant
Find a synonym from the story for the following word.
Fortunate
Write the related words as shown in the example:
