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Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow.………On their slag heap, these children Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones. All of their time and space are foggy slum. So blot their maps with slums as big as doom.(a) Which two images are used to describe these slums? (b) What sort of life do these children lead? (c) Which figure of speech is used in the last line? (d) What does ‘slag heap’ refer to? |
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Answer» (a) The images used to describe the slums are ‘foggy slum’ and ‘slums as big as doom’. (b) The homes of these children are very cramped and dingy. They are almost like holes and these children live in them like rats. They are deprived of the picturesque beauty and gift of nature. (c) The figure of speech used in the last line is a simile, ‘slums as big as doom’. (d) ‘Slag heap’ refers to the hunger-stricken bodies of the slum children, which seem to be garbage heaps. |
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