Poem
The Gymnastic Clock
Question answers
C1. Answer the following questions in one or two sentences each
1. Name the two characters in the poem.
Ans - The two characters in the poem are the speaker and the gymnastic clock.
2.What does the clock tell the speaker each morning?
Ans- The clock tell the speaker each morning not to forget your exercises.
3.Does the clock stop its exercises in any time?
Ans-No the clock doesn't stop its exercise any time.
4. What similarity do the speaker and the clock share?
Ans- They both share the similarity in their exercises.
C2. Complete the following.
Make a list of the words that are repeated in the poem.
1.Plane
2.Clock
3.your
4.exercise
C3.Read the poem again and answer the following:
1."I exercise like this,all day!"
a. Who is referred to 'I'?
Ans- I referred to the gymnastic clock.
b.What is the exercise?
Ans- Exercise is taking both the hands above the head and lower them very slowly.
c.When does it do it it?
Ans- It so it for all the day.
1. "Pooh! I wouldn't boast of it like you"
a. Who is referred to as 'you'?
Ans-You referred to the gymnastic clock.
b. What is he boasting about?
Ans- He is boasting about his exercises.
c. Is there a competition between the one who says this line and the clock?
Ans- No, there is no any competition between the speaker and the clock.
Know more about the poem:
Study the words given below and pick out rhyming words from the poem.
😊 One is done for you.
me - be
rises - exercises
know - so
you - too
Way - say
Personification
When you make a thing, an Idea,or animal to do something that only human beings can do.
Example:- 1."Wind yells while blowing."
This is an example of personification because Wind cannot yell.Only a human being can tell.
2. " The lion called the fox"
Here the lion has shown that it called a fox.Here lion is shown acting like a human being.So this is the example of personification.
1..Identify two examples for personification in the poem.
Ans - 1. The little clock is friends with me
It talks as plain as plain can be,
2. And says,each morning as it rises,
Now,don't forget your exercise!
3. and so the clock then looks at me.
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