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

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

Assonance.

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उत्तर

  • Assonance:
    Oil is all; pull and push; weave and heat; fly and dive.
  • Own Example:
    mellow wedding bells
    crumbling thunder
    she bleats when she speaks.
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पाठ 5.2: The Secret of the Machines - Exercise [पृष्ठ १५२]

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पाठ 5.2 The Secret of the Machines
Exercise | Q C. | पृष्ठ १५२

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?


Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She knows how to thaw you, saw you – so beware!

What is the tone of the author?


She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief.

Pick out other alliterated words from the poem.


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?


Compare and contrast the attitude of the ant and the cricket.


And a thousandth of an inch to give us play.
Which of the following do the machines want to prove from this line?


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.

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 the understanding of the poem, read the following lines and answer the questions given below.

Let us remember, whenever we are told
To hate our brothers, it is ourselves
That we shall dispossess, betray, condemn.

  1. Who tells us to hate our brothers?
  2. What happens when we hate our brothers?
  3. What do we do to ourselves?

The poem ‘No men are foreign’ has a greater relevance in today's world. Elucidate.


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