Short Answer TypeRead the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
looked out at young
trees sprinting, the merry children spilling
out of their homes, but after the airport's
security check, standing a few yards
away, I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, _ _ _
(a) How can the trees sprint?
(b) Why did the poet look at her mother again?
(c) What did she observe?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
and
On their slag heap, them children
Wear skins peeped through by bones and spectacles of steel
With mended glass, like bottle bits on stones
(a) Who are these children?
(b) What is their slag heap?
(c) Why are their bones peeping though their skins?
(d) What does 'with mended glass' mean?
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
How did Rajkumar Shukla establish that he was resolute?
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
'Life is what it is all about...' How is keeping quiet related to life?
Keeping quiet does not signify that we should stop doing everything. It simply means that we must stop doing all those things that are lethal to our mother earth. Mother Earth stays quiet nurturing life on it. Similarly, we should also make attempts to do things that support nature to maintain life on it.
Answer any four of the following in 30 - 40 words each:
Mention any four things of beauty that add joy to our life.
Long Answer TypeSophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realize. Comment.
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