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प्रश्न
Read the story on your own. Discuss in a group and complete the story map below.
| A story map is the main events of the story given in a flow chart. |
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उत्तर
A story map is the main events of the story given in a flow chart.
- Grandfather built a bungalow and planted trees around it.
- During the rains Grandfather walked into the jungle and planted cuttings & saplings.
- They found a small rocky island and Grandfather planted a number of tamarind, laburnum and coral tree saplings.
- During the second world war the author was sent to a boarding school.
- Some years later, the author returned and saw the Island.
- He looked around and noticed a beautiful small green paradise.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Notice these expressions in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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honing our seafaring skills
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ominous silence
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Mayday calls
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pinpricks in the vast ocean
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a tousled head
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Discuss in your class.
Name some gadgets and appliances that we use in day-to-day life?
Read these lines and answer the questions given below.
Our lays are of cities whose lustre is shed,
Here ‘Lays’ means______
Name the vegetables harvested in the vegetation hab.
Why did Santhosh forget to watch television or play video games?
Why did the greedy merchant get angry?
What secrets did he learn about beasts?
What did the boy make with the trunk of the tree?
Read the following sentence.
‘A very wise man once remarked that of the unspoken word, you are a master; of the spoken word, you are a slave.’
The sentence has two pairs of opposites - spoken and unspoken, and master and slave. The contrasting ideas make the sentence more effective. Putting together opposite or contrasting ideas in one sentence is a literary device. It is called antithesis.
Read the following examples of antithesis.
- Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
- Patience is bitter, but it has a sweet fruit.
