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प्रश्न
The Cloud ‘fuses together a creative myth, a scientific monograph, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure': explain.
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उत्तर
The Cloud, authored by Shelly fuses together a creative myth ‘I am the daughter of Earth and Water’, a scientific monograph ‘And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams’, and a gay picaresque tale of cloud adventure ‘And out of the caverns of rain’.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Write a character sketch of Mr. Barrymore in about 125 words
Answer the following question in 120-150 words:
What kind of life did Silas lead at Lantern Yard?
Why do dolphins cover their long noses with sponges or shells ?
Read the text below and summarise it.
The Great Desert Where Hippos Once Wallowed
The Sahara sets a standard for dry land. It’s the world’s largest desert. Relative humidity can drop into the low single digits. There are places where it rains only about once a century. There are people who reach the end of their lives without ever seeing water come from the sky.
Yet beneath the Sahara are vast aquifers of fresh water, enough liquid to fill a small sea. It is fossil water, a treasure laid down in prehistoric times, some of it possibly a million years old. Just 6,000 years ago, the Sahara was a much different place.
It was green. Prehistoric rock art in the Sahara shows something surprising: hippopotamuses, which need year-round water.
“We don’t have much evidence of a tropical paradise out there, but we had something perfectly liveable,” says Jennifer Smith, a geologist at Washington University in St Louis.
The green Sahara was the product of the migration of the paleo-monsoon. In the same way that ice ages come and go, so too do monsoons migrate north and south. The dynamics of earth’s motion are responsible. The tilt of the earth’s axis varies in a regular cycle — sometimes the planet is more tilted towards the sun, sometimes less so. The axis also wobbles like a spinning top. The date of the earth’s perihelion — its closest approach to the sun — varies in cycle as well.
At times when the Northern Hemisphere tilts sharply towards the sun and the planet makes its closest approach, the increased blast of sunlight during the north’s summer months can cause the African monsoon (which currently occurs between the Equator and roughly 17°N latitude) to shift to the north as it did 10,000 years ago, inundating North Africa.
Around 5,000 years ago the monsoon shifted dramatically southward again. The prehistoric inhabitants of the Sahara discovered that their relatively green surroundings were undergoing something worse than a drought (and perhaps they migrated towards the Nile Valley, where Egyptian culture began to flourish at around the same time).
“We’re learning, and only in recent years, that some climate changes in the past have been as rapid as anything underway today,” says Robert Giegengack, a University of Pennsylvania geologist.
As the land dried out and vegetation decreased, the soil lost its ability to hold water when it did rain. Fewer clouds formed from evaporation. When it rained, the water washed away and evaporated quickly. There was a kind of runaway drying effect. By 4,000 years ago the Sahara had become what it is today.
No one knows how human-driven climate change may alter the Sahara in the future. It’s something scientists can ponder while sipping bottled fossil water pumped from underground.
“It’s the best water in Egypt,” Giegengack said — clean, refreshing mineral water. If you want to drink something good, try the ancient buried treasure of the Sahara.
Staff Writer, Washington Post
Astrologers' perceptions are based more on hearsay and conjecture than what they learn from the study of the stars. Comment with reference to the story.
Considering that this is an excerpt from a lecture, how does the commentary provided by the speaker string the arguments together?
There are intervals of silence in the interaction between the landlady and the prospective tenant. What are the reasons for this?
How does the poem emphasise the physical prowess of the Hawk?
Name the world-famous personality who reached great heights despite of humble circumstances.
Using a dictionary/internet note down the main difference between farm and granary.
Kite - flying in Gujarat, is a competitive sport - cum - festival.
The drone is given a death sentence because he ______.
Visit a library: Find the stories of
- Mulla Nasiruddin
- Gopal Bhand and
- Tenali Raman. Share them in the class.
Complete the following statements with the help of the text.
To learn about meditation, you have to see ____________________________________________________________ Watch your thinking. Do not ________________________ Do not ____________________________________ Begin to learn ______________________________ Just watch thought. Do not ____________________________________________________.
What are the clothes compared to? Give two examples.
Form groups and discuss the following question:
The events described in the poem take place at a certain place, at a certain period of the year, under specific weather conditions. Describe the place, the time, and the weather conditions.
Show the three categories of volcanoes using the following tree diagram structure.
In each of the following line, spot the sound that is used repeatedly -
- There’s a silver house in the lovely sky.
- As round as a silver crown
- It takes two weeks to build it up. And two to pull it down.
Discuss and write 1-2 lines about the following,
Why Bushi told Yonamine not to travel at night.
Answer the following question in one sentence.
What does the man who misses all the fun do?
Write about the various wheel-like objects you see at home, in school, and on the road.
Find two examples of the word made by using the following suffix.
-ness
Relate the themes of the Fair to your science textbook by writing the relevant chapter numbers under each theme.
Imagine you are visiting the Science Fair. What other stalls (apart from the ones mentioned here) are you likely to find there? Try to list at least five more stalls.
Guess the meaning of the following from the context.
The garden still is alight with lilies.
An activity:
Speak fast, think faster! Form groups of 4-6. Discuss each of the following topics. Then each person in the group should choose a topic and speak about it for one minute. Try to say as many sentences as you can in that time
What is not likely to happen or will never happen...
‘It won’t rain in the classroom... I won’t ever see a live dinosaur... The sun will never set in the east...’ etc.
What characteristics of Mr. Nobody do we learn about from this poem?
Find out the following with the help of your teacher and the internet.
Rain in countries like the UK which experience spring-summer-autumn-winter.
From the play, find all the words that are related to the following:
knowledge and learning
Add other related words you know to the list.
Find three lines, that contain images of nature in the autumn season.
At night
- ______________________
- ______________________
- ______________________
How does the following character in the story live up to their name? Provide points from the story.
Taffimai Metallumai
Write other meaningful words that begin/end with springtime.
Write other meaningful words that begin/end with anywhere.
What did he try to take the milk from?
Answer the following question in about 100-150 word.
Describe the funny incident that caused the confusion in the house.
Read the story again and write how these character reacted in these situation:
Zigzag hardly never sleeps.
Somu………………………
Dr.Krishnan……………………….
How did Hamid’s friends enjoy the games in the fair?
Find a sentence/word from the text which express the following.
Words related to prize.
Fill in the blank.
______ is referred to as a festival of sacrifice.
Identify the character/speaker.
I'll see you later at the Queen's croquet game.
Read the poem aloud in pairs
Read the following lines and answer the questions.
It’s a slow, unwavering, ingrained trait
With the patience to work and the strength to wait.
- What is an ‘ingrained trait’?
- Why does a courageous man need patience?
Why did the author help his Grandfather plant trees?
Mithali’s mother tongue is Telugu.
When did Usha Rani start playing Kabaddi?
How does the poet describe the Indian seasons? Write in your own words in about 50 words.
Read the passage three times and colour a bull for each time.
Mr. Murugan is a farmer. He has a small piece of land and two bulls. He takes good care of his bulls as they help him in farming. Every morning, he takes the bulls for grazing. When it rains he ploughs the land with the bulls. As he has no one to help he starts sowing the seed before sunrise. He irrigates the crop till it grows. He reaps and binds the crop then takes it to thrash the paddy. Finally, with the help of the bulls, he takes the paddy to his house.
The hen-pigeon returned home when it started to _______.
Identify the character/speaker.
He bought a new fish tank.
Fill in the blank with rhyming word.
tree- ______
The squirrel ran to the _________ tree.
Why was the tree called 'The Mother Tree'?
The kingdom was situated in the foothills of______.
In real, the test is for______.
The merchants sold things made of______.
Read the passage 3 times and colour the trees for each time.
Trees help us in many ways. The colour green is calming and heals your worries. By planting and caring for trees, we help improve our surroundings, as they give fresh air. When air is dirty the people of Delhi suffered a lot. But people of Madhubani district in Bihar have shown how art can be used to make our air clean. So that people made paintings on trees to stop people from cutting the trees.
What was the truth finally learned by Chris?
What is the poem about?
Based on the poet’s idea of true success, think of four people in your surroundings - your family, neighbours, friends, teachers, classmates, etc. who have achieved true success. Write, in short, what makes them successful.
