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प्रश्न
The poem, 'A Considerable Speck’, captures ______.
विकल्प
the journey of a mite across a sheet of paper
the poet’s determination to kill the mite
the poet’s encounter with a gigantic fly
the mite’s attempt to escape from the fly
उत्तर
The poem, 'A Considerable Speck’, captures the journey of a mite across a sheet of paper.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The black man's face bespoke revenge
As the fire passed from his sight.
For all he saw in his stick of wood
Was a chance to spite the white.
The last man of this forlorn group
Did nought except for gain.
Giving only to those who gave
Was how he played the game.
Their logs held tight in death's still hands
Was proof of human sin.
They didn't die from the cold without
They died from the cold within.
Read the lines given above and answer the question that follow.
Discuss personification as used by the poet.
He flungs himself down in a corner to recoup from the fatigue of his visit to the shop. His wife said, “You are getting no sauce today, nor anything else. I can’t find anything to give you to eat. Fast till the evening, it’ll do you good. Take the goats and be gone now,” she cried and added, “Don’t come back before the sun is down.”
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What lie did Muni tell the shopkeeper?
The village consisted of less than thirty houses, only one of them built with brick and cement. Painted a brilliant yellow and blue all over with gorgeous carvings of gods and gargoyles on its balustrade, it was known as the Big House. The other houses, distributed in four streets, were generally of bamboo thatch, straw, mud, and other unspecified material. Muni’s was the last house in the fourth street, beyond which stretched the fields. In his prosperous days Muni had owned a flock of forty sheep and goats and sallied forth every morning driving the flock to the highway a couple of miles away.
Read the extract given below and answer the question that follow.
What is the name of the village referred to here? Where is it situated?
Chandni fought the wolf because she
Find in the poem an antonym (a word opposite in meaning)for the following word.
long
What do you know about the Viking Mission to Mars?
Are all our dreams probable or improbable?
Which is the word in the extract that means ‘a liquid sweet juice?
With your partner try to guess the meaning of the underlined phrase.
And somehow we fell out.
Referring closely to the poem, Dover Beach, show how the poet correlates the gradual receding of the "Sea of Faith" with the gradual loss of human faith in religion.
