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Read the following extracts & answer the question you are given below

1) “These men were born to drill and die


The unexplained glory flies above them”
i. Name the writer and the text?
ii. Who are referred to as ‘These men’?
iii. What tone does the first line carry?
iv. Explain what the writer wants to convey from the first line?
v. Write the incident of the second line?
vi. What two words you can use, to describe the attitude, tone or the approach of the
writer towords the ‘glory’ of the soldiers?

2) ‘A woman in a yellow jacket she’s going in,


A man in dark glasses he’s coming out.
Teen - agers in jeans, they’re talking
Thirteen seventeen and four seconds,
The shortone, he’s lucky, he’s getting on a scooter,”

i. Write the literary text and the writer?


ii. What poetic device you identify with the help of the first three lines?
iii. If we say that two events or incidents are found here in this poem, what are they?
iv. Out of the above two what incident or situation do these public images contribute to
?
v. According to your knowledge about poetic devices, when there are two incidents
coming parallelly or one after the other; what is it called?
vi. According to your knowledge about this poem, do you find the repeating of time?
vii. Wahr is that technique called?
viii. Is the terrorist narrating this context?
ix. Prove your answer with the exact line in the extract?

3) ‘The Sun burns on the half -mown hill,


By now the blood is dried,
And Maurice amongst the hay lies still
And my knife is in his side’

i. Name the literary text and the writer?


ii. Write the phrases or words for the following devices in this context?
a) anaphora -
b) alliteration -
c) enjambment -
d) archaic language -
iii. Write what the above techniques mean ?
a) anaphora -
b) alliteration -
c) enjambment -
d) archaic language -
iv. With what phrase you identify that Maurice is dead?
v. What word is given for the stanzas which contain four lines?
vi. According to the knowledge about this poem, what other feature you come across in
these four lined stanzas?
4. and he went out
In the rain
Without a word
Without a look
And I, I put
my head in my hands
and wept

i. Name the text and the writer?


ii. According to your knowledge about the poem, why does this person lose the strength in
the heart and weeps?
iii. Explain how you recognize this weeping person as the wife of “he”?
iv. What does the “rain” symbolize here?

5. Once upon a time son,


They used to laugh with their hearts
And laugh with their eyes;
but now they only laugh with their teeth,
While their ice -block – cold eyes
Search behind my shadow.

i. Write the name of the text and the writer?


ii. Write two themes of this poem?

6. “The free bird thinks of another breeze


And the trade winds soft through the sighing trees
and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn
and he names the sky his own.’

i. Write the text and the writer?


ii. What does the free bird symbolize?
iii. Why does the writer use “another breeze” in the first line?
iv. Write the incident of this extract?
v. What does the ‘sighing trees’ suggest?
7. “And he was rich-yes richer than a king
And admirably schooled in every grace.
In fine, we thought that he was everything,
To make us wish that we were in his place.

i. Write the literary text and the writer?


ii. Write two poetic techniques which you find in the first line?
iii. Write the example words or phrases for the above techniques ?
iv. Who are referred to as “We’ here?
v. What single word you can use, instead of the emotional expression of the last line?

8. Glimpsing the headlines of the newspapers,


tourist scuttle for cover, cancel their options
On rooms with vies of temple and holy mountain
“Flash paint in paradise”. “Racial pot boils over.”

i. Write the name of the text and the writer?


ii. Write the headlines of the newspapers?
iii. Who glimpsed the headlines of the newspapers?
iv. According to the underlined piece of writing, about whom is the writer sarcastic?
v. According to the knowledge about the poem, what main theme is found?

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