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प्रश्न
The following is a summary of the poem but it is jumbled up. Write out the events in their correct order to form a continuous paragraph.
(a) As a result, her voice lost its beauty, and the other creatures stopped coming to hear her sing.
(b) Soon the nightingale became famous, and creatures from miles around came to hear her sing.
(c) All the creatures in the bog cheered and clapped at her beautiful song.
(d) He offered to train the nightingale, so that she could sing even more beautifully.
(e) So the frog could sing unrivalled in the bog once more.
(f) The next night the frog introduced himself.
(g) The frog charged an admission fee, and earned a lot of money from these concerts.
(h) A frog croaked all night in a bog, in an unpleasant voice.
(i) But the frog made the nightingale rehearse continuously in the rain.
(j) One night a nightingale began to sing in a melodious voice.
(k) Finally, the nightingale burst a vein and died.
उत्तर
- a)A frog croaked all night in a bog, in an unpleasant voice.
- b)One night a nightingale began to sing in a melodious voice.
- c)All the creatures in the bog cheered and clapped at her beautiful song.
- d)The next night the frog introduced himself.
- e)He offered to train the nightingale, so that she could sing even more beautifully.
- f)Soon the nightingale became famous, and creatures from miles around came to hear her sing.
- g)The frog charged an admission fee, and earned a-lot of money from these concerts.
- h)But the frog made the nightingale rehearse continuously in the rain.
- i)As a result, her voice lost its beauty, and the other creatures stopped coming to hear her sing.
- j)Finally, the nightingale burst a vein and died.
- k)So the frog could sing unrivalled in the bog once more.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Before you read the poem complete the word - web with the words that we associate with a Frog and a Nightingale
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- The frog's aim was to
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- The nightingale was sorrowful and pale because
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Which are the different ways in which the frog asserts his importance?
Answer the following question briefly.
Why is the frog's joy both sweet and bitter?
Discuss the following question and write the answer in your note-books.
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The nightingale has scaled the heights of success. But now the audience is dwindling, the frog is unhappy and reprimands her all the time. She is mentally and physically exhausted and fears failure. As the nightingale, write a diary entry highlighting her fears and analyzing the reasons for her failure.
Write an obituary for the nightingale. You may begin like this: May the kind soul……… (or you may make use of your own beginning)
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"You must make your public happier :
Give them something, sharper, snappier.
We must aim for better billings."
(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.
(b) Who does 'we' refer to?
(c) What must be done for 'better billings'
(d) What trait of the speaker's character is revealed through the above lines?
Even though both, the frog from Vikram Seth’s poem, The Frog and the Nightingale and Abel's children from the play, The Dear Departed, display greed, there are differences. Elaborate, in about 150 words, how the greed of the frog and that of Abel's children differ in motivation, actions, relationship, and consequences.
