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

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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

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?


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?


A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
She puts her life at stake,
She's real, she's not fake!

Add another word that rhymes with it.


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?


Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.

In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the

cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.


If given a chance, who would you want to be-the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer.


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

Alliteration.


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

Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours: the land our brothers walk upon.
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.

  1. What is found beneath all uniforms?
  2. What is same for every one of us?
  3. Where are we all going to lie finally?

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.

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


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