Question Answers For All Chapters – English Class 8
1. The following Anagrams contain words / phrases from the poem.
Guess and write what they are.
(1) rainy tag = try again
(2) our cage = courage
(3) vet sir = strive
(4) red raw = reward
(5) tap niece = patience
(6) serve peer = persevere
2. Pick out lines that convey the following:
(a) If you keep trying, without a doubt, you shall win.
Answer: “You will conquer, never fear, Try again.”
(b) It is not shameful to struggle hard.
Answer: “If we strive ’tis no disgrace.”
(c) When others can do the work, so can you, if you keep trying patiently.
Answer: “All that other folk can do, Why, with patience, may not you?”
(d) When you fail in your first attempt, make another one.
Answer:“If at first you don’t succeed, Try again.”
3. Find from the poem the Antonyms (opposite words) for the following.
(1) succeed → fail
(2) punishment → reward
(3) courage → fear
(4) stop / quit → persevere
(5) lose → win
4. Answer in your own words.
(a) What lesson should be kept always in mind?
Answer: We should always remember that if we fail, we must keep trying again and again until we succeed.
(b) What should someone who loses a race do?
Answer: Someone who loses a race should not give up but should keep practicing and try again.
(c) What quality is important when you are struggling for success?
Answer: Perseverance and patience are important qualities when struggling for success.
(d) When can success have a greater value – when you get it easily or with difficulty?
Answer: Success has a greater value when it is achieved with difficulty because it requires hard work, patience, and determination.
5. Read the poem and fill in the web choosing points from it.
Trying Again → Leads to → Success
- Perseverance
- Patience
- Hard work
- Courage
- Learning from failure
6. Most lines from the poem can serve as a Truth or a Proverb.
Pick out 3 or 4 such lines.
Answer:
(1) “If at first you don’t succeed, Try again.”
(2) “If we strive ’tis no disgrace.”
(3) “Time will bring you, your reward.”
(4) “You will conquer, never fear, Try again.”
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