Prose – 3
In Celebration of Being Alive
Synonyms
1. Agony – suffering
2. intrepid – gallant
3. Prevalent – common
4. Solace – Comfort
5. Perforated – punctured
6. Disfigured - marred
Antonyms
1. Malignant X benign
2. Confidence X diffidence
3. Ennobles X humiliates
4. Amputated x joined
5. Prevalent x uncommon
6. Sophisticated x primitive
Short Answers
1. What happened in the grand finale?
2. What were the problems the trolley driver suffered from?
3. How did the boy who played the mechanic lose his
eyesight?
4. How does Dr. Barnard know the boy who played the
trolley’s driver?
Poem -3
All the World’s a Stage
Appreciation Questions
1. Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
i. Which stage of life is being referred to here by the
poet?
ii. What are the characteristics of this stage?
iii. How does the boy go to school?
iv. Which figure of speech has been employed in the second
line?
2. Then a soldier,
full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour,
sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth.
i. What is the soldier ready to do?
ii. Explain ‘bubble reputation’.
iii. What are the
distinguishing features of this stage?
3. “All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
i. What is the figure of speech in the second line?
ii. What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?
iii. Name the poem and the poet.
Explain the following lines briefly with reference to the
context.
1. “Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation”.
2. And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school.
Prose – 4
The Summit
Synonyms
1. Steady – firm
2. Enormous - huge
Antonyms
1. loomed X vanished
2. Collapsed X refreshed
Short Answers
1. The soft snow was difficult and dangerous.
Why?
2. What did Tenzing and Edmund Hillary gift to the God of
lofty Summit? How did they do it?
3. What did Hillary do with his wet boots?
Poem - 4
Ulysses
Appreciation Questions
1. …………………for my purpose holds
To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths
Of all the western stars, until I die.
i. What was Ulysses’
purpose in life?
ii. What does the word ‘baths’ mean?
iii. How long would his venture last?
2. Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
i. How is every hour
important to Ulysses?
ii. What does the
term ‘Little remains’ convey?
iii. What is the figure of speech employed in the lines?
3. This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle
Well-loved of me,
i. Who does Ulysses
entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
ii. Bring out the
significance of the ‘sceptre’.
4. … I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and
sleep, and feed, and know not me.
i. What does Ulysses
do?
ii. Did he enjoy what
he was doing? Give reasons.
5. One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
i. who are referred to heroic hearts?
ii. Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.
6. It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great
Achilles, whom we knew.
i. Which place would they travel to?
ii. Whom would they meet with in the course of voyage?
iii. What is Happy Isles?
7. When I am gone. He works his work, I mine.
There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
i. Where does the poet plan to go?
ii. Identify the figure of speech in the second line
8. Much have I seen and known; cities of men
And manners, climates, councils, governments,
i. Who does ‘I’ refer to?
ii. what has been seen and known by the narrator?
Explain the following lines briefly with reference to the context.
1. He works his work, I mine
2. To strive, to
seek, to find, and not to yield.
3. I am become a name;
For always roaming with a hungry heart
4. This is my son, mine own Telemachus,
To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle
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