Question
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following sentences using the information from the extract: (2)
(1) His likeness with his brother dogged poet's _______________.
(2) The narrator's _______________ became his brother's wife. This fatal likeness even dogged
My footsteps, when at school,
And I was always getting flogged,
For John turned out a fool.
I put this question, fruitlessly,
To everyone I knew,
‘What would you do, if you were me,
To prove that you were you?’
Our close resemblance turned the tide
Of my domestic life,
For somehow, my intended bride
Became my brother's wife.
In fact, year after year the same
Absurd mistakes went on,
And when I died, the neighbours came
And buried brother John.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the web: (2)
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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Write the rhyming words for the following from the extract : (1)
(1) dogged - _______________
(2) school - _______________

Answer

A1. Simple Factual Activity:
(1) His likeness with his brother dogged poet's footsteps at school.
(2) The narrator's intended wife became his brother's wife.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
(1) dogged - flogged
(2) school - fool

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That folks got taking me for him,
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It reached a fearful pitch;
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Write the rhyming words : (1)
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A2. Complex Factual Activities:
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A3. Activities based on Vocabulary:
(1) Tell whether the rhyming scheme of the following stanzas is right or wrong. Give the correct rhyme scheme for the wrong one:
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Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
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(2) The whole village goes to the city  _______________.

O moon,
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with seeds of moonlight.
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on the sides of the path
I want to sow many,
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Neither bus nor cart plies.
When my father returns home
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Pick out and write the lines from the poem that prove the following: (2)
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Write rhyming words for the following from the extract: (1)
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(2) _______________ were puzzled by the brother's similarity.

In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
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And each for one another.
It puzzled all our kith and kin,
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As we were being washed by nurse,
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And your heart beat fast.
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the extract: 
(1) Passions and their emotions shine _______________.
(2) If you are not satisfied with your job or love, _______________.
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: 
(1) Find out a pair of rhyming words from the extract : Passion 
(2) Give your own rhyming words for : job
A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Match the following sentences : (2)

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In form and feature, face and limb,
I grew so like my brother,
That folks got taking me for him,
And each for one another.
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It reached a fearful pitch;
For one of us was born a twin,
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Before our names were fixed,
As we were being washed by nurse,
We got completely mixed;
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Or rather nurse’s whim,
My brother John got christened me,
And I got christened him.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) Pick out from the extract words/phrases that tell that the narrator was like his brother John. 
(2) What is the mix-up mentioned in this extract?
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices: 
Name the figures of speech: (1)
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A1. Simple Factual Activity:
Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The child wants a basketful of moonlight on _______________.
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And he goes back early in the morning
while I am sleeping.
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on loan.
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so that my father returns early.
I too want to hear fairy tales
and stories from him.
O moon,
give me a basketful of moonlight.
I want to sow seeds of moon
on the sides of the path.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
(1) What does deliberate repetition of lines 'O moon, give mo give me moonlight, basketful of moonlight' signify? (2)
A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
Pick out the examples of Uiteration and repetition: (1)
(1) Alliteration :
(2) Repetition :
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Complete the following lines with the help of the poem: (2)
(1) The child wants to sow moons of light from _______________.
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O moon,
give me moonlight,
basketful or two baskets full,
with seeds of moonlight.
From the city to my village,
on the sides of the path
I want to sow many,
small, small moons of light.
The whole village goes to the city
daily to work.
It becomes dark on its way back
as my village is quite far.
The route is tough and full of
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Neither bus nor cart plies.
When my father returns home
I am asleep.

A2. Complex Factual Activity:
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Pick out the examples of alliteration and repetition: (1)
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A2. Complex Factual Activity:
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A3. Activities based on Poetic Devices:
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