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SAI INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL



                                   STD-5    ENGLISH     LITERATURE


                                 CHAPTER-8- THE ECHOING GREEN


                   OBJECTIVE:


                   •  When a sentence uses the same letter or sound at the beginning of the

                       closely connected words, it is called Alliteration. It is used to give a lyrical
                       quality to the poem.


                   •  Example; the birds of the bush-/b/sound has been repeated here.


               A.List four more examples of alliteration from the poem ‘The Echoing Green’.

                       1.________________________________


                       2.________________________________


                       3.________________________________


                       4.________________________________

               Subjective:


                   C. Read the lines given below from the poem and answer the questions that

                   follow.


                   In our youth time were seen, on the Echoing Green

                   a. Who does the word ‘our’ refer to?


                   b. What was seen in their youth-time?


                   2. And make happy the skies.

                   What makes the skies happy?


                   Why do the merry bells ring?
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