Activity on Unit 6.1 Nation's Strength

Q.Read the given extract and do all the activities that follow.
                      What makes a nation’s pillars high

                      And it’s foundations strong?

                      What makes it mighty to defy

                      The foes that round it throng?

                       It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand

                       Go down in battle shock;

                       Its shafts are laid on sinking sand,

                       Not on abiding rock.

                       Is it the sword? Ask the red dust

                      Of empires passed away;

                      The blood has turned their stones to rust,

                      Their glory to decay.

A.1  Point Out                                                                                                                            (2)

        Point out the expressions from the extract that state:

       i) material wealth does not make the nation powerful and safe

       ii) rich kingdoms have been defeated and destroyed.

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A.2 Poetic Devices :                                                                                                                     (2)

                 'Their glory to decay'

       Name the figure of speech in the above line and find out the another example of the same.

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A.3 Personal Response :                                                                                                               (2)

       Explain your idea of a developed country.

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A.4 Poetic Creativity:                                                                                                                   (2)

        Ask the red dust, is it sword?

        of empires passed away;

        

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       Their glory to decay.

            The word order in the first line changed. Now complete the third line 

             to rhyme with the first line

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