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Identify the figure of speech used in each of the extract given below and write down the answer in the space given below. “ What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking

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

“ What is that dirge-like murmur that I hear Like the sea breaking on a shingle -beach?

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अध्याय 2.2: Our Casuarina Tree - Exercise [पृष्ठ ५६]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 2.2 Our Casuarina Tree
Exercise | Q 5. e) | पृष्ठ ५६

संबंधित प्रश्न

Fill in the following empty boxes.

Name Location
Fort St. George Chennai
Gingee Fort ______
Golconda Fort ______
Red Fort ______

Where were the enemies?


Why were the secret galleries bare?


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Grew thin and treacherous as air.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Our only enemy was gold,


How does the poet spend her winter?


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


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Dear is the Casuarina to my soul;


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,…


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those

Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,


Discuss with your partner the different stages in the growth of man from a new born to an adult


“And they have their exits and their entrances” - What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?


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”

Complete the summary of the poem, choosing words from the list given below. Lines 1 to 32

Ulysses is (1) ______to discharge his duties as a (2) ______, as he longs for (3) ______. He is filled with an (4) ______thirst for (5) ______and wishes to live life to the (6) ______. He has travelled far and wide gaining (7) _______ of various places, cultures, men and (8) ______. He recalls with delight his experience at the battle of Troy. Enriched by his (9) ______he longs for more and his quest seems endless. Like metal which would (10) ______if unused, life without adventure is meaningless. According to him living is not merely (11) ______to stay alive. Though old but zestful, Ulysses looks at every hour as a bringer of new things and yearns to follow knowledge even if it is (12)______.

fullest, unquenchable, unattainable, experience, knowledge, king, matters, rust, adventure, unwilling, travel, breathing

How would Telemachus transform the subjects?


In what ways were Ulysses and his mariners alike?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

.....the deep Moans round with many voices.


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

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,

  1. Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
  2. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.

What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?


What has twisted good men into thwarted worms?


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

“Life is a soft loam; be gentle; go easy.” And this too might serve him.

  1. Why does the poet suggest to take life easy?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.


Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges of life.


Who took the city of Ratisbon by storm?


Describe the posture of Napoleon.


Where did the rider plant the French flag after Ratisbon was captured?


How did the young soldier face his end?


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

‘You’re wounded!’ ‘Nay’, his soldier’s pride Touched to the quick, he said:

  1. Why did the boy contradict Napoleon’s words?
  2. Why was his pride touched?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

‘I’m killed, Sire!’ And, his Chief beside, Smiling, the boy fell dead.


The young soldier matched his emperor in courage and patriotism. Elucidate your answer.


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