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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, _ _ _
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
(a) The poetess was looking out of the car while it was moving. It seemed to her that the objects were moving in the opposite direction. Also, it looked like as if the trees were running. So, she said that the trees sprint.
(b) The poetess looked at her mother again to assure her mother that she would see her again.
(c) The poetess observed that her mother looked pale and weak.
(d) The poetic device that is used in these lines is personification and simile.
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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
On their slag heap, them children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(a) Who are these children?
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
(a) These children are the students of an elementary classroom in the slums.
(b) The 'slag heap' refers to the bodies of these children.
(c) Their bones are peeping through their skins because these children are malnourished.
(d) 'Mended glass' is used for the spectacles with broken glasses that these children wear. They are so poor that they can’t afford to get a new pair.
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
What did garbage mean to the children of Seemapuri and to their parents?
Garbage was a means of survival to the people of Seemapuri. However, it had a different meaning to the children, for whom it was a mysterious package that held unknown valuables.
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?
Rajkumar Shukla was determined to take Gandhiji to Champaran to bring into his notice the problem of the sharecroppers. Though Gandhiji had a foregoing obligation to go to Kanpur, Shukla followed him. He was so determined to take Gandhiji with him that he stood in Ahmedabad for three days and left when Gandhi assured him that he would be there on a certain day. Not only this, he also waited for him at the appointed spot in Calcutta.
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
'Life is what it is all about...' How is keeping quiet related to life?
Keeping quiet does not signify that we should stop doing everything. It simply means that we must stop doing all those things that are lethal to our mother earth. Mother Earth stays quiet nurturing life on it. Similarly, we should also make attempts to do things that support nature to maintain life on it.
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