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Name: u t Ranlc Roll No:
Worksheet 1
Question 3_Grade-Section: VI-LDate:
1. Has Charlie
1: Underline the
Similes in the following sentences/ short
conversations.
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troubled you today?" said John.

"Not at all," said Charlie's mother. "He has been as

good as gold she added.
2. The Assypuah Companed to
Run like the wind to t
nd get some oolt.
milk, Peter,bhehean
Said his
of fhe Pa
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3. These a Compayed: to leaWes. tane Co mp@he
new shoes are very comfortable, and as
light as a
feather," said Ritesh. on the a 3a
To
a
4 "Why is Reena hgodd is Compaed
1to saidThneMahesh.
looking as white as a ghost these days? beom OF a litte Cunll
"She has been very ill, and has
become as weak as a new-born kitten," said
Rajesh.
5. TIl buy this," said Suyash picking up a blue shirt.
"Don't you like this yellow shirt?" asked his friend.

Yes, but this blue one fits me like a glove, and that one is slightly loose," replied Suyash.
6. "Don't you ever eat anything, Rekha?" asked Mrs. Rao.

Of course I do! Why do you ask?" said Rekha.

*"Well, you are as thin as a rake!"

7. I am shocked at this news," said Jay. "My heart feels as heavy as lead!""

8. Did the kids enjoy themselves at the picnic?" asked the Principal.
"Oh yes!" said their teacher. "They were just like a bagful of mischievous monkeys!"
9. What's the problem?" said the coach separating the two boys rolling on the ground. "Why are you
fighting like cats and dogs?" he asked.
"Akash called me afiddle," said Suraj. r 6a boot
"I didn't, Sir!" said Suraj. "In fact I was praising him. I told him he looked as fit as a fiddle!
10. "The girls seem like busy little bees these days," said their father. "What's up?" he asked.

"They are preparing for their grandparents' golden jubilee wedding anniversary" said their mother. "They

want everything to be as right as rain!

Question 2: Underline the Similes in the following lines taken from various poems, Writ
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down what is being compared? The first one has been done as an example.

Example: Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;

He who would search for
pearls, must dive below.

Answer: Errors are

compared to strawsS.
. The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold,
And his cohorts were
gleaming in purple and gold; 0n r A
And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea,

When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.

2. Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of Sense beneath rarely is found.

3. How far that little candle throws his beams!

So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

4. Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
5. Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart:
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:

a The AssyJuah Compahed to a Loff.

b The
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2 Woncs ae Compald to leae
3 The good deed is Compaed to
Cancdle. the beem of a littr
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Worksheet 2
Grade-Section: VI-Date: 717
Name: Rut Ranle_Roll No: 13
the following prose pieces.
Question 1: Underline the Metaphors in
river flowing merrily in the moonlight.
. Her long, silky, black hair was a

computers! The old ones were ancient dinosaurs.

2. Thank goodness for the new

best medicine, it is also music of thesoul.

. Laughter is notonlythe
4. My brother loves to work at night. He is a real ow.
scared at the slightest
noise at night. Sheis such a chicken!
. Maria gets
music!
Let's have some
these falling snowflakes dancers?
6. Look! Aren't
friends as well as the keys to his imagination.
7. Books areman's best around it.
mirror reflecting all that is
8. The peaceful lake is a shiny green
can remember
almost everything. His brain isa computer.
9. Soham is very intelligent and minute.
ready to explode any
more. As it is, his temper is a volcano;
10. Don't upset Sam any

Column A with
sentences containing Metaphors by matehing
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Question 2: Write any
Column B.

Column B
Column A
of information
3 an ocean

a link to the world

1. Life is
life
3 the pulse of modern
sheet
an unending blue bed

meets the sky

sheet of waves that
2. A true friend is 5 a

with a million mysteries

a liquid world
life

manna from heaven

is
3. The Internet
nature's laundry man

a flowing river

a cricket match

4. Dogs are -2 a lofty mountain

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 the world sailing on the ocean

5. The Ocean is an adventure full of glamorous sailing

the coming together of many dreams

a warm fire on a cold night

2
6. Rain water is 2 a beacon of hope

2 a gem of rare value

epitomes of unconditional love

7. The huge cruise liner is the best friends men can have

Ly the strength of faith and hope

Question 3: Underline the Metaphors.

1. My family is the ocean around us.

My father is the hurricane.

knocking anything and everybody out of his path.
My mother isthe sunshine after the storm (my father),
clearing and calming everything else.
2. My oldest sister is the breeze in the wind,
cool, quiet, and there when you need her.

3. Dreams are wishes

That let your imagination grow.
They let you travel

Anywhere you can go

4. My birthday wish to you from me.

The world is yourschool room and you have the key.

5. Hope is a flapping kite

tethered to a child
praying that it Doesn't fly away
Hope isthe sun on a cool summer day

warmly cradling you

in the cool atmosphere

helping you see through the darkness

Hope is seeing children befriend each other

not judging based on appearances

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Worksheet 3

Name: u t kank Roll No: 3 Grade-Section:

VI-Dater1,22
the starters given helow
a lew words to
Question 1: Make Alliterative sentences by adding
1. Ply, the parot..Pe-checl on the Ponch and ate a peach
2 Biren and Bina
browsed..tmougboolsS Onbutte-fies and tolh boyslt
3. Nellie, the
new girl knows no Hing aboUf the hebynusnab boe ks
4. Charlie chatted...
5. Silently the Superhero...
6. The dragonfly droned...
7. Rusty is Rahul's Rottweiler..
8. Philip's fast friend...
9. Jaggu. the joker..
10. The light of a little lamp..

Question 2: Underline the Onomatopoeic words in the following short passages. Also,
mention who/what made the noise / sound.
1. The small boy beat his drum Boom-di-boom-di-boom! Assoon as his parents heard it theyshuttheir
door with a loud bang. His father groaned loudly, and said, "That's the end of our quiet afternoon, I
guess!

Boom-do -boom -di-Bo o hn,

ay

(ang.mack by dood talhe

Ghohad - hade bj
2. Sheila turned the key with a loud click. She pushed open the door. It creaked loudly. The house was quiet.
Suddenly a loud flapping and cooing filled the air, and two pigeons flew out of the door. They really
scared Sheila who let out a screech of fright.

(aClick-Macle by tke Bey-

(6)Gnealkid mclcdle bjIhudoo)
()lappihgund Cooing maclo biPagens
SCech -macle.by dhela
3. The monotonous whirr of the vacuum cleaner is irritating me," said Grannie. "It sounds like a hundred
Snakes hissing at once." But Mother wanted to finish her work, so the irritating hum went on for another
ten minutes.
( Uhinn mace byiheVacwknm cleanu
(btesiny 2acebjhundaueltnakubot thoec bjlheClemeyr
lacn
)Hwm- made bj VacUn clan
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4Look! Everyone is working diligently. Tappity-tap-tap-tapsO many keyboards being worked on af. the
same time. Their sound has drowned the loud tick-tock of the clock! HOwever, everyone knows the time
im e
because the clocks booms out the hour regularly.

olofguty
Tfck Tok
tap-foptap made bt lypnyOh Keybo)e
made hhe dock
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5. "Woof Woof!" said Fido. Janetcalimed him down by speaking to him in her special cooing voice.
However, Fido continued to bark and paw at her. She went with him into the garden. The wind was
whispering among the trees. Suddenly Fido gave a loud growl and looked up. As soon as Janet looked up.
sheheard a pathetic mewing, "Oh Fido!" she said, "that's just a little kitten stuck on the tree!"

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( Meing- made by kittea
Question 3: Match the Column A with their 'sound words' given in Column B, and form
sentences.

Sr. Sr.
Column A (Names) Answers Column B (Sound
No. Ltr. Words)

The stream A was honked loudly.

The car horn

dA B with a swish.

3 Rain
E zoomed off with great speed.
The telephone D gurgles as it flows.

5 The motorbike E whirred monotonously.

6 The old do0or

H F patters on the tin roof.

The firecrackers J G clanked loudly.

The ceiling fan H squeaked on its hinges.

9 The curtain went up trilled with a shrill sound.

10 The empty utensils went boom, boom, boom!

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Worksheet 4
Name:
oruut Rah
Question 1: Underline the hyperbole
Roll No:13_Grade-Section: VI -Date:
(exaggeration) in the following sentences /
51
passages taken from various texts.
literary
1.Labour,wide as the earth, has its sunmmit in heaven. (Thomas Carlyle)
thought ten thousand swords must have leapt from their scabbards to avenge a look that threatened her
with insult. (Edmund Burke)
(The skin on her face was as thin and drawn as tight as the skin of onion and her gray and
eyes were
sharp
like the points of twopicks. (from 'Parker's Back' by Flannery O'Connor)
3. A day was twenty-four hours longbut seemed longer. There was no hurry, for there was nowhereto go.
nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.
(from To Kill a Mocking Bird' by Harper Lee)
4 Well now, one winter it was socold thatallthe geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even

the snowturned blue. Late at night, it got so frigid that all spoken wortds froze solid afore they could be
heard. People had to wait until sunup to find out what folks were talking about the night before.
(from Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox)
5. At that time Bogota was a remote, lugubrious city where an insomniacrain had been falling since the

beginning ofthe 16h century. (from 'Living to Tell the Tale' by Gabriel Garcia Márquez)
6. I was helpless. I did not know what in the world to do. I was guaking from head to foot, and could have
hLRg my hat-e-meresthey stuck out so far. (from "Old Times on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain)
7. Why does a boy who's fast as a jet take all day and sometimes two to get to school?

(from 'Speed Adjustments' by John Ciardi)

Question 2: Underline the words / lines showing hyperbole in the following poems.
TIl love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps over the mountain
And the salmon sing in the street,
III love you till the ocean

Is folded and hung up to dry

And the seven stars go squawking
Like geese about the sky.
(from As I Walked Out one Evening' by W.H. Auden)
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Worksheet 5

Name: d Roll No:3_Grade-Section: VI - Date: h22

Read each sentence carefully and name
the object that has been personified, and1
Question 1:
One has been done as an example.
state which human trait (quality) it has been given.

Example: "I can never set my hair as I want to," said Emily. "It seems have amind ofits own!"
to

Answer: 'Hair is personified, and the human trait/ quality

is "having a mind ofits own.
rattled all doors and windows.
1. Lighting raced across the sky, and the howling wind
I ate it up!"
2. Diana said, "The last piece of cake was calling me, so
whole house
3 My sister's alarm clock shouts so loudly, it wakes the up.

in its way.
4. The floods carried away whatever came

Traffic slowed to a crawl as the rain came down in torrents.

5
and the musty air almost choked us.
6. The old door groaned loudly as it opened,
7. The moon played hide and seek with the clouds.

book tells us a lovely story or two.

8. Every
as we walked over it.
9. The wooden staircase protested

10. When I got selected to play football, my dream of holding the cup came alive.

Question 2: Underline the Personifications in the following poems.

1. Check- (by James Stephens)

The night was creeping on the ground:

She crept and did not make a sound

Until she reached the tree, and then

She covered it, and sole again

Along the grass beside the walI

I heard the rustle ofher shawl

As shethrew blackness everywhere

Upon the sky and ground and air
And in the room where I was hid:
But no matter what she did
To everyth ing that was without,

She could not put mycandle out.

 So I stared at the night, and she

Stared back solemnly at me.

2. Fog-(by Carl Sandburg)

The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
Over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.

3. Two Sunflowers Move In The Yellow Room- (by Nancy Willard)

Ah, William, we're weary of weather,'
said the sunflowers, shining with dew.

Qur traveling habits have tired us.

Can yOu give us a room with a view?
 c e T o m thei r e statiqy tofix the fumes in Freeland Square. I hey got out their hoses within

H blinkingpf
heard theeye.The
for miles and miles.
water gushed out like amndred streams. The sizzling of the flames couldbe

.
unke! Tinkle! Tinkle" went the bells. "Boom! Boom! Boom!" said the drums. The children heard and
Tarn Out laughing merrily like twinkling stars. "The ice cream man is here," they said. *You dear, delicious,

dreamy ice creams!

How we
enjoy your company!
A
4.ine fantastic fragrant flowers!"
P/H
exclaimed Fanny. "The garden is like so many
time! The lush green rainbows out at the same
lawn is a velvety carpet. The calm green pool beckons me to sit at its side. The
lotuses offer up a
welcoming smile.

5. Time is money. Everyone has heard this sentence a thousand H

times at
eagle. Money flows away as fast as a babbling brook. Is there some least.
MIPP
Time flies by on wings of an
way to catch them and make thenm Our
best friends?

S/
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We Shall Overcome
Assignment 1
Name: Kru Rank_Roll No: 13 Grade-Section: VI -

IDate: 6.1,22
The Sea
Question 1. Write down the Figures of Speech in the space given after each line of the poem.
The sea is a hungry dog.

The dca is aGiant

hungiy dogMelaphoa
and grey.
G 9-Aliteration
He rolls on the beach all day.
p
Henolls on Jhe beadh al da -Texsonikalioh
With his clashing teeth and shaggy jaws

With his cahingtalh @nd hag)Jous Onom topola

Hour upon hour he gnawsS

Hhh A Iliferation
The rumbling. tumbling stones.

Jumblihy tumling- Onomotopocla

And 'Bones, bones, bones, bones!"

The giant sea-dog moans,

giant sa-dos moan) M,P,H

Licking his greasy paws.
-

Fevso nifiakon
And when the night wind roars

P
And the moon rocks in the stormy cloud,

P O
He boundsto his feet and snuffs and sniffs,

Shakiag his wide paws over the cliffs,

POA
And hoayls and hollos long and loud.
 But in quiet days in May or June.

P
When even the grasses on the dune

P
Play no more their reedy tune,

With his head between his pawS

P
He lies onthe sandy shores,

So quiet, so quief, he hardly snores.

PHA
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Assignment 2

Name:
toutRand Roll No:T3 Grade-Section: VI -Z_Date:1 , 22
The Wind
Question 1. Write down the Figu res of Speech in the space given after each line of the poem.

I saw you toss the kites on high

P
And blow the birds about the sky;

A
And all around I heard you pass,

AP
Like ladies' skirts across the grasS

Q wind, a-blowing all day long

H
O-wind that sings so loud a song!

HA I saw the different things you did

But always you yourself you hid.

AP
I felt you push. I heard you cal1
P
I could not see yourself at all-

AP
Owind a-blowing all day long

O-wind that sings so loud a song!

HA
O you that are so strong and cold,

O blower, are you young or old?

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Are you a beast of field and tree,

M
Or just a stronger child than me? LD
M
O wind, a-blowing all day long
H
O-wind that sings so loud a song!
HA
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