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Admin Flareup as noun .. The political leader’s fiery speech against a particular community led to a communal flareup in the town. Flare up as phrasal verb… Violence flared up in the village after a wicked Brahmin boy physically abused some Dalit women taking bath in …
Read the whole piece, and understand it. Paraphrase the first two paragraphs. Choose any one paragraph and identify the words as noun, pronoun, adjective, adverb etc. (This piece appeared in The Economist magazine. We gratefully acknowledge it.) ————————————————————————————————.————————- Last month I was part of a …
FIGURES OF SPEECH What are…. Simile Metaphor Hyperbole Oxymoron Metonymy …
The Cold Within by James Patrick Kinney Six humans trapped in happenstance In dark and bitter cold, Each one possessed a stick of wood, Or so the story’s told. Meaning .. By some coincidence, six humans find themselves trapped in an area that is …
If Thou Must Love Me by Elizabeth Barrett Browning If Thou Must Love Me: Line by Line Explanation Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) wrote ‘If Thou Must Love Me’. It is the sonnet no.14 of her collection named ‘Sonnets from the Portuguese’ that has 44 love …
A Wedding in Brownsville by Isaac Bashevis Singer A word about the author .. Polish by birth, Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902-1991) grew up in a family of rabbis (Orthodox Jews). After passing out from Warsaw Rabbinical Seminary, he left for the United States and made …
Eveline Introduction …. This story was written by James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (1882-1941). This short story centered around a 19-year-old Irish girl was later included in his book named Dubliners. James Joyce was a writer, a literary critic and a novelist. Through his unique style, …
Comprehension exercise 2… The Tsunami engulfs the Andaman and Nicobar islands ————————–.————————————- Despite the hundreds of kilometers of water that separate the Andamans from the Indian mainland, many of the relief camps in Port Blair, the islands’ capital city, have the appearance of miniaturized portraits …
Fit the right word in the right place. Choose the right word from the list off three words given at the end of each sentence. It was the first visit of the 8-year-old girl to the zoo. Her mother took her to the wire-fenced cage …
Comprehension exercise with answers (for vocabulary building) The following passages were sourced from ‘The Economist’. The questions and answers are at the end of the write up. Before his best race, at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff in 1958, Milkha Singh was …