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Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem? - English

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Who are the speakers and listeners of this poem?

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The machines are the speakers. The readers are the listeners.

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पाठ 5.2: The Secret of the Machines - Exercise [पृष्ठ १५०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 10 SSLC TN Board
पाठ 5.2 The Secret of the Machines
Exercise | Q A. 2. | पृष्ठ १५०

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 she mean by “spring will come again”?


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.

Not a crumb to be found
On the snow-covered ground.

Why was the ground covered with snow?


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

My heart was so light
that I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.
“You sang, Sir, you say”?

Mention the rhyme scheme employed in the above lines.


Mention the names of a few machines that run on water, coal, or oil.


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?


And now, if you will set us to our task,
We will serve you four and twenty hours a day!

Rewrite the given lines with the ending ‘365 days a year.'


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 lines and answer the questions given below.

Our hells of fire and dust outrage the innocence
Of air that is everywhere our own,
Remember, no men are foreign, and no countries strange.

  1. What outrages the innocence?
  2. Who are not foreign?
  3. What is not strange?

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