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Question
Pick out two examples of Personification from the poem.
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Solution
- 'No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance?'
Explanation: Nature has been given the human qualities of 'glancing' and 'dancing'. - 'No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich the smile her eyes began.'
Explanation: Nature has been given the human quality of 'smiling'.
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Match the words in Column A with what they imply in Column B.
| Column A | Column B |
| (1) pilgrim | (a) threat to life |
| (2) journey | (b) trap |
| (3) evening or close of day | (c) life |
| (4) chasm, deep and wide | (d) death |
| (5) building a bridge | (e) old age |
| (6) pitfall | (f) a dutiful man |
| (7) close of day | (g) solving the problem/getting rid of the threat to life |
Two separate words combine together to make a new word with a different meaning. They form Compound Words. Using a dictionary, find the meaning of the following compound word.
armloads
Rewrite the following in indirect speech.
“What! Are you drawing it all out again?” he asked in surprise.
“Yes, the whole thing,” I said.
In the following sentence, the verb has two object namely Direct and Indirect object. Change each of the following sentence into two passive using a direct object as the subject in one and indirect in the other.
They offered the job to Venkat.
Based on the understanding of the poem, fill in the blanks using the words and phrases given below to make a meaningful summary of the poem.
| brothers and sisters | bitterness | joint family | share their fun | rich and the poor folk |
| shatter their family | charm of life | separate ways | the joy of earth | stick-together families |
The poet brings out the difference in the attitudes of children living in joint family and nuclear family. The ________________ are the happiest of all. Where as the _________________ of nuclear families take ______________. The gladdest people are the children from _______________ who circle near the fireside. No power other than death can break them. The _______________ imagine themselves to be wise and in the process they ______________ ties. Each of them goes searching for pleasure in their own selected way. They harvest only ____________ and find empty joy. But the wisest among them are the children of the stick-together families. When the busy day is done, they together ______________. The stick-together family wins _______________. The old house shelters all the ______________. The poet invites wandering brothers to come and join the stick-together families in their fireside and have fun.
Fill in the blank with the opposite of the word given in bracket.
Children don’t like to read ______ (interesting) books.
Change the sentence from future continuous to past continuous.
I will be speaking to her.
Now, use the verb given in bracket in the following sentence in their correct form.
At the moment they____ (wait) at the bus-stop. But I ______(not know) their plans for the journey.
Given below is a list of common confusable. Distinguish the meaning of each pair of word by framing your own sentence.
prescribed - proscribed
Fill in the blank with appropriate correlative conjunction.
Vani is ______a good singer ______a good dancer.
