Prose-3
Empowered Women Navigating The World
Contention – strenuous effort
Apprehensive – anxious, fearful
Consonance - agreement
Beneath - below
Antonyms
Morale X fear
Glad X sorry
selection rejection
consonance X disagreement
Short answers
1. What does the term circumnavigation mean?
2. Which factor motivated the crew to undertake this expedition?
3. Write a short note on Tara Tarini.
4. When did the crew start their voyage? When did they return
back to India? How many days did it take to complete the expedition?
Poem - 3
I am Every Woman
1. Strong is she in her faith and belief.
“Persistence is the key to everything,” says she.
a) What is she strong about?
c) How does she deal
with the adversities in life?
2. Despite the sighs and groans and moans,
She's strong in her faith, firm in her belief!
a) Is she complaining about the problems of life?
b)
Pick out the words that show her grit.
3. A woman is beauty innate,
A symbol of power and strength.
a) How is a woman?
b) What does she symbolise?
4. She's a lioness; don't mess with her.
She'll not spare you if you're a prankster.
Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She
knows how to thaw you, saw you – so beware!
a) Pick out the rhyming words in the above lines
b) Write the rhyme scheme of the given stanza
c) Pick out the alliteration in the fourth line
d) Find out the figure of speech in the stanza.
5. The summer of life she's ready to see in spring.
She says, "Spring will come again, my dear
Let me care for the ones who're near.”
a) What does the word summer mean here?
b) How does she take life ?
c) What does
she mean by “spring will come again”?
6. Don't ever try to saw her pride, her self-respect.
She knows how to thaw you, saw you – so beware!
a) What do the words thaw and saw mean here?
b) What is the tone of the author?
Prose-4
The Attic
Synonyms
1. Revive - bring back to life
2. Affluent – wealthy
3. Attic – space in the roof
4. Bifurcated -divided
5. Rustic -typical countryside
Antonyms
Crumbled X attached
Short answers
1. What did Aditya offer Sanyal?
2. How did Sanyal show that he had a sense of self-respect?
3. W hen did Aditya leave
the local school?
4. Why was attic a favourite place for children?
5. What was the daily routine of Sanyal?
6. How was the landscape through
which they travelled.
Poem - 4
The Ant and the Cricket
Appreciation Questions
1. At last by starvation and famine made bold,
All dripping with wet, and all trembling
with cold,
a) What made the cricket bold?
b) Why did the cricket
drip and tremble?
2. Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
a) Who does he refer to?
b) Why was his cupboard empty?
3. A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
a) Pick out the rhyming
words of the stanza.
b) Identify the rhyme scheme of the stanza.
c) Find out the figure of speech in the first line
d) Mention the alliteration in the second line
4. A silly young cricket, accustomed to sing
Through the warm, sunny months of gay summer and spring,
Began to complain when he found that, at home,
His cupboard was empty, and winter was come.
a) What was the routine of the cricket?
b) Name the seasons
mentioned here.
5. But we ants never borrow; we ants never lend.
a) Why do you think ants neither borrow nor lend?
b) Who says these lines to whom?
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