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2. What do you think the dreams actually are? Do you believe we can control them if we like?
Give a reason for your answer.

3. How often do you remember the dreams after waking up? Is it possible to alter the course of
our dreams? Give reasons for your answer.

4. Why do you think did John Dryden write ‘Dreams’? Give your answer in about 75 words.

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1. You have learnt that personification is a literary device in which poets and authors give
human-like characteristics to non-living things, ideas or elements of Nature.

Describe with examples how the poet used personification in the poem.

2. Juxtaposition is a literary device where the poet places two things side by side, often
to bring out their differences. For example, wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness, or
darkness and light.

Find examples of juxtaposition in the poem.

3. You have learnt that imagery is a literary device in which poets and authors use vivid
description to paint images in the reader’s mind so that they can easily imagine the situation,
setting, the characters and the emotions they go through.

Identify some lines of the poem that are examples of imagery.

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