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→ Gulliver’s Travels was originally published under the title Travels into Sev-eral Remote Nations of the World.
There was a problem with the computer in the library, so all the titles of books got mixed up. Match Column A with Column B to form the correct title.
1. Around the World
2. 20,000 Leagues
3. The Lord
4. Pride and
5. Harry Potter and
6. Adventures of
7. David
8. Charlie and
9. Treasure
10. The Count
11. Far From
12. A Tale of
A. The Goblet of Fire
B. Island
C. The Chocolate Fac-
tory
D. Two Cities
E. In Eighty Days
F. Under the Sea
G. Prejusice
H. Of the Rings
I. Huckleberry Finn
J. The Madding Crowd
K. Of Monte Cristo
L. Copperfield
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JUMBLED NAMES
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→ Write down the word MALAYALAM. Re-write the word, beginning with the last letter and ending with the first and read it aloud. Yes, it is a Palin-drome.
→ Some believe that when Napoleon first sighted the island Elba, where he was exiled, he spoke this famous palindromic sentence: ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA.
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1. Midday 2. Past tense of the verb ‘do’
3. A polite form of ad-dress for a woman
4. Look quickly and quietly
5. Woman monk 6. Even, flat 7. Female sheep 8. A boat, used by Inuits
Palindromes are words or sentences that read the same forward and back-ward. Palindrome comes from a Greek word that means “running back again”. The answers to each of these clues is a palindrome. Can you work them out?
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PALINDROMES
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→ The prefix ‘homo’ means ‘same’ and is attached to several other words to denote different things. Find out what homonyms and homographs are and how they are different from homophones.
A homophone is a word that is pronounced like another word but has a different spelling or meaning.
This is a letter Rishita has written to Promita. There are words, whose homophones have been used instead of the word itself. Underline those words and then words and then write down the correct words in the space provided below.
Dear Promita, I have knot herd from you for a long time. Today, I shall tell you what happened in my house last knight. The clock was about two strike ate twelve when our neighbour Mr Das came with a pail face to tell us that his dog was missing. We rang up the police and waited. But he was losing patience. He then said that he would give us a meddle, if we found his dog for him. Hearing this, our made rushed out of the gait. Our pet hair also followed her. It was quiet a site! Buy for now. Love, Rishita
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HOMOPHONES
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→ There is a big difference between a quotation and a proverb. A quotation is something that has been said by a person whereas a proverb is a general saying.
A proverb is a short sentence that offers advice or gives a moral. Some-times, as with ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder’, they express a general truth. At other times, everyday experience is used to make the point: ‘A bird in hand is worth two in the bush’.
1. Beggars cannot be ______________
2. ____________ lies in the eye of the beholder.
3. ____________ begins at home.
4. ____________ killed the cat.
5. Don’t judge a ________________ by its cover.
6. The pen is mightier than the ______________
7. ____________ is stranger than fiction.
8. Nothing succeeds like _____________
9. ____________ wasn’t built in a day.
10. A miss is as good as a _____________
11. Actions speak louder than ____________
12. Every _____________ has his day.
Fill in the blanks to complete these proverbs.
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PROVERBS
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→ The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mahatma Gandhi. It covers his life from early child-hood to 1920. He wrote the autobiography in his mother-tongue Gujarati.
Fill in the blanks to get a few terms often used in literature.
1. A long story usually about imaginary characters and events is
called a ___________________
2. The stage representation of an action or story is called a
__________________
3. A light-amusing piece of writing that makes people laugh and has
a happy ending is called ____________________
4. A serious piece of writing whose ending is always sorrowful is
called ____________________
5. A short written work having a personal view or opinion on a par-
ticular subject is called an _____________________
6. A piece of writing in which the words are chosen for their sounds
and the images they suggest is called a ___________________
7. The story of a person’s life written by that person is an
___________________
8. Several novels related to each other, by plot, setting, character, or
all three is called a ___________________
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LITERARY TERMS
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→ The success of the Harry Potter series has made J K Rowling the highest-earning novelist in history.
Name the author.
1. This is me. 2. My real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens. 3. I have written The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Life on the Mississippi.. I am _________________
1. This is me. 2. At an early age I began writing stories and descriptive es-
says for magazines and newspapers under the name of Boz.
3. My first novel was Pickwick Papers but my most popular novel was David Copperfield. I am __________________
1. This is me. 2. I am British by birth but I was born in Bombay. 3. Some of my famous works are The Jungle Book, Just So Sto-
ries, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep and Kim.
I am __________________
1. This is me. 2. I was originally a mathematician before becoming a writer. 3. My story about the adventures of a girl named Alice, have
made me very famous.
I am _________________
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FAMOUS AUTHORS
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→ Enid Blyton is a British author of stories, poems, plays, and educational books for children. She is the creator of the Famous Five, Secret Seven, and Mystry series of books.
Our young detectives have lost their way. Help to put them in the right boxes.
1. Jupiter Jones
2. Pip Hilton
3. George Kirrin
4. Dick Kirrin
5. Bets Hilton
6. Daisy Daykin
7. Fatty Trotteville
8. Robert Andrews
9. Pete Crenshaw
10. Larry Daykin
11. Anne Kirrin
12. Timmy
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MYSTERY STORIES
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KNOW WITH ... → In the Ramayana, Rama gave up his life in Sarayu River and rose to heaven. His
brothers Bharata and Shatrughna also gave up their lives and took the forms of the conch and the wheel that adorn the hands of Lord Vishnu.
Solve the following crossword to get the names of characters from the Ramayana.
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1. Minister of Sugriva
and Lord Rama’s faithful companion (7)
2. Brother of Sugriva (4) 3. Ten headed demon
king of Lanka (6) 4. Twin brother of
Lakshmana, son of King Dasharatha (10)
7. Son of King Dashara-tha and his chief Queen Kausalya (4)
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5. Nephew of Sugriva and the son of Bali (6) 6. Wife of Lord Rama’s brother Lakshmana (6) 8. The kingdom of RA vana (5) 9. Brother of Ravana who later supported Lord Rama (10)
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THE RAMAYANA
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KNOW WITH ... → Chanakya was an advisor to King Chandragupta Maurya. He helped Chandra-
gupta overthrow the powerful Nanda dynasty at Pataliputra. He is also known by the names Kautilya and Vishnugupta. He was also the author of a famous literary work Arthashastra.
A student has written facts on two famous advisors, Birbal and Tenali Rama. The facts have gone out of order. Write the name of an advisor in the space provided.
1. He is generally associated with Emperor Akbar.
2. He was the court poet and jester of the Vijaynagar King, Sri Krishnadeva Raya.
3. His real name was Mahesh Das.
4. He was among the eight wise men in the royal court.
5. He was also a good poet who wrote under the pen name Brahma and a collection of his poems is preserved in the Bharatpur Museum.
6. He was born in a town in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh.
7. His most famous work, Pan-duranga Mahatyam, was dedi-cated to his king’s grandson.
8. He was a part of the Em-peror’s inner council of nine ad-visors, known as the ‘navaratna’, a Sanskrit word meaning ‘nine jewels’.
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FAMOUS ADVISORS
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