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Read the extracts given below.Food is more important for survival than an identity. “If at the end of the day we can feed our families and go to bed without an aching stomach, we would rather live here than in the fields that gave us no grain,” say a group of women in tattered saris when I ask them why they left their beautiful land of green fields and rivers. Wherever they find food, they pitch their tents that become transit homes. Children grow up in them, becoming partners in survival. And survival in Seemapuri means rag-picking. Through the years, it has acquired the proportions of a fine art. Garbage to them is gold. It is their daily bread, a roof over their heads, even if it is a leaking roof. But for a child it is even more.i. The phrase ‘transit homes’ refer to the dwellings that are a. unhygienic. b. inadequate. c. fragile. d. temporary. ii. Identify the figure of speech used in the sentence “Garbage to them is gold”. a. hyperbole b. simile c. synecdoche d. personification iii. Choose the term which best matches the statement ‘Food is more important for survival than an identity.”? a. immorality b. necessity c. obligation d. ambition iv. What does ‘acquired the proportions of a fine art’ mean? a. Rag-picking has regained its lost status.b. A segment of ragpickers are skilled in fine arts. c. Rag-picking has attained the position of a skill. d. Only a few people are experts in rag-picking

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i. (d) temporary 

ii. (a) hyperbole 

iii. (b) necessity 

iv. (c) Rag picking has attained the position of a skill.



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