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प्रश्न
The quill is the central element of the poem – what does it symbolise?
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उत्तर
The quill symbolises a new script. It is symbolic of the transition of a script, the characteristics that a script delivers to its successive script in legacy. Let us have a clearer idea of it by taking the evolution of Dogri's scripts into account. Around the time when the Dogri language developed, it used its native script Sharade, which evolved from the original Brahmi script. Sharade then came to be replaced by Devanagari, used presently. In the poem Mother Tongue, Padma Sachdev bemoans the depreciation of Sharade script. She explains a script's evolution by citing an example of a reed plant.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Notice these expression in the text. Infer their meaning from the context.
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Give reasons for the following statement.
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Read the play out in parts. Enact the play on a suitable occasion.
What impressions of Shahid do you gather from the piece?
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________one's word
How do you respond to these lines?
Light, chill and yellow,
Bathes the serene
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Think and answer in your own words.
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Answer in your own words.
What are the provisions in the Declaration of the United Nations, to ensure the equality of men and women?
Find evidence from the lesson and write in your own words.
India has many amazing success stories.
Pick out a word from the poem to complete the sentence meaningfully.
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Read the description of the Kabaddi match and do the following:
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Read the passage and find the verbs used with the following nouns and phrases:
- volcano
- molten rock
- volcanic mountain
- dust
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- bird
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Answer in your own words.
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| Words | Meaning |
| 1. yard | (a) a floor, flat area built on a ship |
| 2. mast | (b) the forward part of the main body of a ship |
| 3. bow | (c) the forward part of a deck |
| 4. deck | (d) tall, upright pole on a ship |
| 5. forecastle | (e) a pole slung across a ship’s mast. A sail hangs from a yard. |
| 6. starboard | (f) the rearmost (back) part of a ship |
| 7. stern | (g) the part which is always at the front while the ship is sailing. |
| 8. afterdeck | (h) the right-hand side of a ship as one faces forward |
| 9. fore | (i) an open deck near the back |
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Identify the character/speaker.
I'll see you later at the Queen's croquet game.
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QPO, NML, KJI, ______, EDC
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Read the poem aloud in pairs
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Summer comes
in a blaze of heat with
sunny smiles
and dusty feet
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Why did the family move to Patna?
Why does the poet fly out of the universe?
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Why should we read?
Why did the bird catcher need fire?
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Torch
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In no time she hit the object she aimed at.
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| (a) Geoffrey Chaucer | (i) Trinidad |
| (b) Daniel Defoe | (ii) Wuthering Heights |
| (c) V.S. Naipaul | (iii) Robinson Crusoe |
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Examples: Hello, everyone! I am Sonali. I have a brother and a sister. I live in Amalner. We have a pet dog at home.
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