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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?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
What made the cricket bold?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling with cold,
Why did the cricket drip and tremble?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
Whom did the cricket want to meet? Why?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Away he set off to a miserly ant,
To keep if, to keep him alive, he would grant
Him shelter from rain,
And a mouthful of grain.
What would keep him alive?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
But we ants never borrow,
we ants never lend.
Why do you think ants neither borrow nor lend?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
But we ants never borrow,
we ants never lend.
Who says these lines to whom?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”
Who does ‘I’ refer to?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
‘‘ Not I!
My heart was so light
That I sang day and night,
For all nature looked gay.”
What was the nature of the cricket? How do you know?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,
The ant refused to help the cricket. Why?
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,
Explain the second line.
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Thus ending, he hastily lifted the wicket,
And out of the door turned the poor little cricket,
Explain the second line.
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
He wished only to borrow,
He’d repay it tomorrow.
Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines.
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Based on your understanding of the poem, read the following line and answer the question given below.
He wished only to borrow,
He’d repay it tomorrow.
Give more examples of rhyming words from the poem.
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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.
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Based on your understanding of the poem, complete the summary using the phrases given below.
In this narrative poem, the poet brings out the idea that is essential for every creature. He conveys this message to the readers through a story of __________ The ant spends all its summer saving __________. The cricket __________ happily in the summer. He __________ anything for the winter. When winter comes, he is worried that his __________ is empty. So, he seeks the help of the ant to have __________ and a __________ to stay. The cricket was even prepared to repay it in the future. The ant made it clear that ants __________. He also enquired the cricket if it had saved anything when the weather was fine. The cricket answered that it had sung day and night enjoying__________. The ant threw the
cricket out and stated in a stern voice it should dance in the winter season too. In his concluding lines, the poet affirms that this is not __________ but it is true and applicable to __________ also.
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‘Some crickets have four legs and some have two’. Elucidate this statement from the poet’s point of view.
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Compare and contrast the attitude of the ant and the cricket.
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If given a chance, who would you want to be-the ant or the cricket? Justify your answer.
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What was the cruel announcement made by the leader?
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