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प्रश्न
Complete the following table.
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | ________________ | ________________ | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. | ________________ | with gleaming gold | ________________ |
| 3. | Oxymoron | ________________ | ________________ |
| 4. | ________________ | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | ________________ |
| 5. | Paradox | ________________ | ________________ |
उत्तर
| No. | Figure of Speech | Line of the poem | Explanation |
| 1. | Personification | , and the skies surrender. | The sky is imagined to art like a human being. |
| 2. |
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with gleaming gold |
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| 3. | Oxymoron | So history is new again | The old is wiped out or changed to appear new |
| 4. | Climax | The country wears a perfect smile. Anaesthesia, Amnesia, Hypnosis | The words increase in intensity for creating a strong impact. |
| 5. | Paradox | our past's tomorrow | Opposite ideas - past and tomorrow - create a dramatic effect for meaning. |
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The table below contains a list of nouns and some adjectives. Use as many adjectives as you can to describe each noun. You might come up with some funny descriptions!
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Noun |
Adjective |
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elephant |
circular, striped, enormous, multicoloured, round, cheerful, wild, blue, red, chubby, large, medium-sized, cold |
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face |
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building |
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water |
Make pair of sentences to show the difference between the meaning of the following Homograph from the story.
mind
Pick out from the poem, two examples of the following Figure of Speech.
Alliteration
In poetry, when a question is asked, not to get an answer, but to emphasise a point of fact, it is an example of Interrogation.
For example :
- When can their glory fade?
- Isn’t it time for the autumn’s glow?
From a popular book of poems/the internet, write down 3-4 examples of Interrogation used in poetry.
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
- ___________________
Add your own sentences to those given in the passage to illustrate the uses of ‘have’.
To indicate the relationship
Read the entry about ‘voice’ in the ‘Language Study’ pages. Note that the speeches of all the boys are in the ‘active’ voice. Turn them into passive constructions.
1950s Boy - cleaned my bicycle.
Note the words that are highlighted.
Marouckla ran to the top of the mountain where the big fire was burning.
The highlighted words are all nouns. Find 5 other nouns from the story.
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
begun
Find the opposite of the following word from the lesson.
earned
Use the following phrase in your own sentence -
to get rid of
Rewrite the following sentence using ‘not only but also’ and ‘as well as’ in 2 seperate sentences.
To protect the temples and artifacts, UNESCO launched an international campaign.
Complete these sentence using the appropriate modal. The clues in the bracket will help you.
My father ____________ play badminton in the evenings when he was at college. (past habit)
Change the following into Passive voice.
Have you invited Raman to the party?
Convert the following active sentence into a passive sentence by supplying an appropriate passive verb form.
She has won the first prize./The first prize ______________ by her.
Read the given sentence carefully and fill in with an appropriate phrasal verb. Choose them from the help of option.
The mother instructed the maid to ______the child carefully.
Fill in the blank with the suitable collective noun.
a ______ of birds.
Use the phrase could you or would you in the following situation with your friend.
You need to borrow your friend’s bike.
In 1998, Frank moved to London.
Look at the punctuation of these sentence. Why are they punctuated differently? Discuss in class.
One always felt like drawing close to him
Read these sentence from the story carefully. Do they give command or request or make statement? Write 'C' for command and 'R' for request and 'S' for statement.
Please do not cut trees.
Complete the Conditional Sentence. Decide whether to use Type I, II, or III.
If I had time, I __________ (go) shopping with you.
Refer to a dictionary for the meanings and choose the odd one.
Kind
Find me in the poem.
I can help you to cross the river.
Fill in the blank with suitable linking word or conjunction.
You can use a pen ______ a pencil for writing.
Write the correct punctuation mark that best complete the sentence.
Terry Sam and Jeremy went to the movies together ____
Look at the picture and choose the correct plural word.
Loaf
Put the word in the correct order to make sentence. Use a different colour to write the adverb.
Came/Anand/to/school/early.
Change the sentence from future continuous to past continuous.
It will be raining heavily.
Write the correct preposition.
The doll is ______ the box.
Complete the sentence with a correct reflexive pronoun.
Teachers teach _________ a new lesson every day.
He __________ before 5 ‘o’ clock. (sleep)
Fill in the blank
They _______ everyone to the marriage by next week. (invite)
Recite the poem with correct intonation.
Choose the correct prefix and write the new word.
Fill in the blank.
Kiran sails in ______ Indian ocean.
Fill in the blanks using a, an and the.
______camel is the ship of ______ desert.
Read the following word and choose the correct antonym from the option given:
scattered
Read the following word and choose the correct antonym from the option given:
monotonous
Fill in the blank choosing the word from the box. Refer to a dictionary if required.
Aruna always looks at the bright side of things. Even in the face of misfortune, she firmly believes that everything will work out for the best in the end. Aruna is an ______.
Complete the following with appropriate conditional clause.
We will miss our train, ______.
Look at the following words and classify them according to their fields.
| clinical, orthopedic, dividend, operations, fertile, Carnatic, diagnostics, industries, keyboard, hacker, desktop, vocal, cultivation, organic, unplugged, disease, harvest, livestock, mother-board, investment, internet, proxy, recycle bin, orchestra, trade, hip-hop, uprooting, guitar, cure, contracts |
| Music | |||
| Agriculture | |||
| Computer | |||
| Commerce | |||
| Medicine |
- The ______ of the photo is broken.
- We ______questions on all topics.
Foreign words and phrases
You have come across the French phrases ‘en famille’ |ən <famille>| and ‘bons mots’ ˌ|bɑn ˈmɑːts| in the lesson. Now, look at the following phrases and their meanings.
- viva voce - /ˌvaɪvə vəusi / - a spoken examination
- sine die - /ˈsɪnə ˈdʌɪiː/ – without a date being fixed
- resume- /ˈrezjuːmeɪ/ - a brief summary
- rapport - /ræˈpɔː(r)/ - close relationship with good understanding
- bonafide - /ˌbəʊnə ˈfaɪdi/ - genuine
Complete the sentence with the correct tense form of the verb in bracket.
I can’t remember what my teacher (say) yesterday about our homework. I (not listen) properly because Hussain (talk) to me at the same time.
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
I think Suresh ______ for Tiruvallur next morning. (leave)
Fill in the blank with the correct form of the verb given in the bracket.
My mother was tired yesterday because she ______well the night before (not sleep).
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
Where had you kept the book?
Change the following sentence into Passive Voice.
How did you do the experiment?
Frame illustrative sentence to distinguish the meaning of the word in the following cluster.
quiet – quite – quit
Form a phrase with each of the following pair of noun given below.
surgery + instruments -
Match the following with their right field, choosing appropriately from the box given.
| snow-board | Machinery |
| snow-mobile | Sports |
| snow-chains | Transportation |
| snow-storm | Geography |
| snow-bird | Weather |
| snow-belt | Travel |
Complete the sentences choosing the right endings.
| We were thoroughly disappointed | to find out his address |
| Hardly had he stepped out | we could not go further |
| They wanted | since our team did not get a prize |
| Since we had run out of petrol | was his reckless driving |
| The cause of his injury | when it began to rain |
Replace the underlined word/expression with possibly polite form.
Subsidies are given to the poor.
Underline the gerund in the following sentence.
I love eating ice creams.
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Figars
Spot the error in the spelling of the following word with reference to the passage and rewrite it correctly.
Tribel
Find the meaning of the following from a good dictionary:
connoisseurs
Read the following sentence and frame at least two relevant questions.
I was like that ship before my education began.
Write compound word using the picture:
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+ |  |
| ______ | ||
In the following sentence, replace the incorrect underlined word to make the sentence meaningful and grammatically correct.
She handed in the business to her son.
