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Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face? - English

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Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?

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No, the soldiers did not fight with their enemies face to face.

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अध्याय 1.2: The Castle - Exercise [पृष्ठ २०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 1.2 The Castle
Exercise | Q 1. f) | पृष्ठ २०

संबंधित प्रश्न

They seemed no threat to us at all.


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

A little wicked wicket gate.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Grew thin and treacherous as air.


What is the creeper compared to?


Why is the casuarina tree dear to poet’s heart?


Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“ LIKE a huge Python, winding round and round

The rugged trunk indented deep with scars”,


Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. 

“The water-lilies spring, like snow enmassed.”


What is the world compared to?


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,

Seeking the bubble reputation”.“They have their exits and their entrances;


Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following lines from the poem.

“All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. 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. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon,

With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion;
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”

  1. “All the world's a stage”
  2. “And all the men and women merely players”
  3. “And shining morning face, creeping like snail”
  4. “Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,”
  5. “Seeking the bubble reputation”
  6. “His youthful hose, well sav’d, a world too wide”
  7. “and his big manly voice, turning again toward childish treble”

What has Ulysses gained from his travel experiences?


‘He works his work, I mine’ – How is the work distinguished?


What could be the possible outcomes of their travel?


Read the set of line from the poem and answer the question that follow.

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

  1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
  2. How long would his venture last?

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star,

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs:

the deep Moans round with many voices.


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven;


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.


List the roles and responsibilities Ulysses assigns to his son Telemachus, while he is away.


Here are a few poetic device used in the poem.

Repetition- It is a figure of speech.


Read the line given below and answer the question that follow.

Tell him to be a fool ever so often

and to have no shame over having been a fool

yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies

  1. Is it a shame to be a fool at times?
  2. What does one learn from every folly?

Pick out the alliterated words from the poem and write.

And this might stand him for the storms


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

He will be lonely enough

to have time for the work


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.


Why was the rider in a hurry?


When did the narrator find that the boy was badly wounded?


How did the young soldier face his end?


Literary Devices

Mark the rhyme scheme of the poem. The rhyme scheme for the first stanza is as follows.

With neck out-thrust, you fancy how, a
Legs wide, arms locked behind, b
As if to balance the prone brow a
Oppressive with its mind. b

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