Machine poem questions and answers for 8th standard students. Important question and answer were explained for class 8th students.
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Notes of the poem Machine:
C1. Answer the following questions.
1)Look at eh first stanza see how a machine made of metal goes through a process in making fill in the empty boxes with the appropriate steps.
Ans: 1. mined 2. melted 3. cast 4. wrought 5. hammered 6. cut 7. filed 8. tooled 9. gauged
2) What do simple machines need to start working?
Ans: They need some water, coal and oil to start working.
3) Name at least five machine or mechanical devices and write how they are useful to man.
Ans:
1) Train: Transportation of goods and people.
2) Scanning machine: to find out the internal diseases in our body.
3) Printing machine: for printing books.
4) Loud speaker: to conduct speeches and programs.
5) Washing machine. For washing clothes.
4) What can a machine not do?
Ans: Machine cannot comprehend a lie. It cannot have love, pity or forgive.
5) What is the risk if the machine is mishandled?
Ans: If you mishandle the machine you will die.
C2 Questions of Machine poem:
C2. Read and discuss with your partner and then write.
1) How are machines and human beings different? Study the last stanza and write.
Ans: Though machines are powerful, bigger in size and weight, they are nothing before man as they are the children of man’s brain.
2) Do you observe any rhyme scheme in each stanza. If you do write the words that rhyme together.
Ans: Mine – design, pit – fit, ask – task, play – day, ask – task, drive- dive, light -write, live – forgive, lie – die, eyes – size, again- brain
3) List all the words that suggest motion.
Ans:
1) pull 2) haul 3) push 4) drive 5) print 6) plough 7) weave 8) heat 9) Light 10) Run 11) jump 12) swim 13) fly
4) Identify other words which are repeated in the poem like ‘and.‘ What is the effect of such repetition?
Ans: Repeated words in poem are- Were, can, we.
These words are repeated to impress the reader and to give more rhyme effect.
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