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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below. I drive past the house almost every day. The house seems to be a bit brighter.

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Read the given lines and answer the questions given below.

I drive past the house almost every day.
The house seems to be a bit brighter.
On this warm summer day in May.
It plays with your mind.

  1. To whom does ‘I’ refer to?
  2. Pick out the alliterated words in the 2nd line.
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  1. ‘I’ refers to the poetess, Nadia Bush.
  2. The alliterated words in the second line are a bit brighter.
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पाठ 7.2: The House on Elm Street - Exercise [पृष्ठ २०३]

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पाठ 7.2 The House on Elm Street
Exercise | Q A. 2. | पृष्ठ २०३

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”

What does the word summer mean here?


Despite the sighs and groans and moans,
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!

Pick out the words that show her grit.


How are today's women portrayed by the poet? 


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

Give your examples of metaphor to describe the qualities of a woman.


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.

But we ants never borrow,
we ants never lend.

Who says these lines to whom?


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

Who does the pronoun ‘you’ refer to here?


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?


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.

Rumors are constantly being made,
And each day the house just begins to fade.
What happened inside that house?

  1. Does the house remain the same every day?
  2. How does the poet consider the house to be a mystery?

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