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Question
Read the extract and do the following activities:
A1 Complete :
| Night |
Morning |
| (i) | (i) |
| (ii) | (ii) |
There was a roaring in the wind all night;
The rain came heavily and fell in floods;
But now the sun is rising calm and bright,
The birds are singing in the distant woods;
Over his own sweet voice the Stock-dove broods;
The Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters;
And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters
All things that love the sun are out of doors;
The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth;
The grass is bright with raindrops-on the moors
The hare is running races in her mirth;
And with her feet she from the plashy earth
Raises a mist; that, glittering in the sun,
Runs with her all the way, wherever she doth run.
A2 What do the different birds do? Discuss.
A3 The sky rejoices in the morning’s birth. (Name and explain the figure of speech)
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Solution
A1
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Night
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Morning
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The wind was roaring. It was raining heavily, thus causing floods.
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The sun is rising. It is bright The birds are chirping. The hare is running races mirthfully.
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A2 All the birds are singing in the "distant woods",
'the Stock-Dove broods over his own sweet voice',
'the Jay makes answer as the Magpie chatters'
A3 The figure of speech is Personification because the sky and the morning are given human qualities of the ability to rejoice and to give birth to.
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