My Computer Needs A Break
Poem by Shanthini Govindan
A) Answer the following:
1. How does the poet describe her computer?
Answer: The poet describes her computer as very intelligent and smart. The computer seems to know a lot of information by heart.
2. What happened to the computer?
Answer: The computer was behaving badly, forgets to save and store anything. A virus has got into it and it became sick.
3. List four things that the computer could not do after it became absent-minded.
- (a) The computer forgets to save the poet’s work.
- (b) It doesn’t check her spellings.
- (c) It hides all her files.
- (d) It makes her work vanish in the most dreadful way.
4. What made the poet squirm?
Answer: When the computer actually gobbled a worm, a virus, it behaved unsteadily. So the poet squirmed.
5. Why did the poet call the doctor?
Answer: The computer caught a virus and fell very sick. So the poet had to call a doctor.
B) Fill in the blanks
- Computers are brainy and smart.
- We get answers for questions by a click.
- The computer forgot to save the poet's work.
- The computer actually gobbled a worm.
- The poet feels that his computer needs a holiday.
C) Pick out the rhyming words from the poem
- Smart – heart
- click – quick
- right – sight
- sick – quick
D) Match the poetic lines with Figures of Speech
Poetic Lines
- So brainy
- Mountains
- It's so absent minded
- Computer gobbled a worm
- Very sick
Figures of Speech
- Personification
- Personification
- Hyperbole
- Metaphor
- Metaphor
Answer:
1. So brainy – (d) Metaphor
2. Mountains – (c) Hyperbole
3. It’s so absent minded – (a) Personification
4. Computer gobbled a worm – (b) Personification
5. Very sick – (e) Metaphor
E) Find the alliterating words from the poem
- Save – store
- Doctor – double
- Virus – very
- makes – most
- Gobbled – Govindan
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