CG Board Class 9 English Unit 2 Sports (Reading B) The Peaceful Game are given below for Hindi Medium students.
CG Board Class 9 English Unit 2 Sports (Reading B) The Peaceful Game
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Comprehension-
Answer the following questions.
Q.1. Why do you think the poet calls chess ‘a peaceful game’? Do you accept his view? Why/ why not?
Ans:- In the end of the game of chess, nobody gets hurt, that is why the poet calls chess, a peaceful game’. I do accept his view because there is no violence involved in this game. One has to play chess with peace and quiet mind, so only one can win. One always has to be stable in the game .
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Q.2. Who are the opponents in the game?
Ans:- Poet’s family and friends are the opponents in the game.
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Q.3. There are many lines repeated in the poem. Why do you think the poet does so?
Ans:- There are many lines repeated in the poem as the poet wants to give importance to the game and add poetic effect.
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Q.4. Find from the poem five words which are used with their antonyms.
Ans:- Start X end
Enemies X friends
On X off
War X peace
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Q.5. Pick out the similes/ metaphors/ oxymorons/ alliterations used in the poem.
| A Simile is a comparison between two unlike objects or feelings using ‘like’ or ‘as’ e.g. The bride’s dress was as white as a cloud. A Metaphor is a comparison between two unlike objects or feelings without using ‘like’ or ‘as’ e.g. Alexander was the lion in the battle. An Oxymoron is a phrase using two words of opposite meaning brought together in context e.g. sweet sorrow or silent speech. An Alliteration is a repetition of a particular sound in a sentence in sequence e.g. the wind whistled on the way, the fair breeze blew. |
Ans:- Similes :- It’s more like a war or a fight, I don’t want to act like a pest,
Alliterations:- I play it with family and friends, but off the board I hope for peace that never, never ends.
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Q.6. Try to write rhyming lines using the hints provided.
i. I like the game of chess ——————— mess/less/press
Ans:- As it has a little mess.
ii. I play it with family ——————— silly/bully/jelly
Ans:- Because there is no one to bully.
iii. We play day and night. ——————— light/fight/white
Ans:- Without any fight.
iv. It’s more like a war ——————— bar/car/jar/far
Ans:- Sometimes at a bar.
v. There is never peace ——————— ease/lease/tease
Ans:- We always end up having friendly Tease.