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Not everybody loves to play and participate in games, sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of us wish to be mere spectators.

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प्रश्न

Not everybody loves to play and participate in games, sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of us wish to be mere spectators. List out the activities in which you like to be either a performer or a spectator. Share your views with the class.

Activities
  performer/player spectator/audience
e.g. cricket magician
a.    
b.    
c.    
d.    
e.    
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उत्तर

Activities
  performer/player spectator/audience
e.g. cricket magician
a. Football hockey
b. volleyball kabbadi
c. movie chess
d. music concert dance
e. karate singing
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Poem (Class 11th)
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अध्याय 2.2: Confessions of a Born Spectator - Warm Up [पृष्ठ ५३]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
अध्याय 2.2 Confessions of a Born Spectator
Warm Up | Q 1. | पृष्ठ ५३

संबंधित प्रश्न

What does he desire to unlearn and relearn?


What does the poet long for?


Interpret each of the following expression used in the poem, in one or two line.

laugh with their eyes


Interpret each of the following expression used in the poem, in one or two line.

shake hands without hearts


Interpret each of the following expression used in the poem, in one or two line.

to unlearn all these muting things


Explain the following lines with reference to the context.

I want to be what I used to be.


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a sentence or two

When snaps the knee and cracks the wrist….

Identify and explain the use of the literary device in this line.


Explain the following with reference to the context in about 50–60 word each.

They do not ever in their dealings Consider one another’s feelings…


Read the poem and complete the table with suitable rhyming words

e.g. enter center
  hockey
admire  
  romp
  deeds
score  
please  
  wrist
demands  
  stadium

Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

For this most modest physiques…


Would you like to exchange your place with someone else? Why/why not?


What sort of encouragement should an athlete in India be given? Give a few suggestions.


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

And ‘tis my faith that every flower

Enjoys the air it breathes…

  1. What is the poet’s faith?
  2. What trait of Nature do we see here?

Explain the following line with reference to the context in about four to five sentence each.

In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts

Bring sad thoughts to the mind.


What scene in nature gives you pleasure? Talk for a minute describing a natural scene that gave you a lot of joy. What did you see, hear, smell or feel, that gave you joy?


What is Macavity’s nickname?


Why does the poet say Macavity is ‘outwardly’ respectable?


Give an account of Macavity’s destructive mischief.


Read the given lines and answer the question that follow.

For he’s a fiend in feline shape, a monster of depravity

  1. How is the cat described in this line?
  2. Explain the phrase ‘monster of depravity’.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

There may be a scrap of paper in the hall or on the stair

But it’s useless to investigate…


Who are the ‘deserving ones’?


Why does the speaker say ‘Everest is not the only peak’?


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Honour is a property, common to all: In dignity and pride no one need to be poor.

  1. Who are considered rich?
  2. What is their asset?

In what way is every hillock similar to Everest?


Discuss the following topics in groups of five and choose a representative to sum up the views and share them with the class.

To succeed in life, one must have a single-minded devotion to duty.


Work with a partner and take this short quiz to find out how well-informed you are about history.

  • Name a few wars and battles you have read about.
  • What is the difference between a war and a battle? 
  • Why do rulers wage wars and battles?
  • Is the outcome of a war always fair? 
  • Do you think rulers understand the true meaning of life – in defeat or in victory? 
  • Can you name a few kings and leaders who have fallen from glory to disgrace? 

Fill in the blanks using the words given in the box to complete the summary of the poem:

King Richard the Second, had surrendered to his (a)______cousin, Bollingbroke. He experienced deep distress at the horror of his circumstances. In that desperate situation, he speaks of (b)______, (c)______, (d)______and other things connected with death. He spoke of how people leave nothing behind and can call nothing their own, except for the small patch of (e)______, where they will be buried. King Richard yielded to dejection and talked of all the different ways in which defeated kings suffer how some had been deposed, (f)______in war, (g)______by their wives and so forth. He attributed this loss of lives to (h)______, who he personified as the jester who watches over the shoulder of every ruler, who mocks kings by allowing them to think their human flesh, was like (i)______brass. However, Death penetrates through the castle walls, silently and unnoticed like a sharp (j)______, thus bidding (k)______to him and all his pride forever. Finally, Richard appealed to his soldiers not to mock his mere flesh and blood by showing (l) ______and respect to him. He added that he too needed bread to live, felt want, tasted (m)______and needed (n)______. He concluded thus, urging his men not to call him a (o)______as he was only human, just like the rest of them.

barren-earth friends graves slain
rebellious poisoned worms grief
impregnable epitaphs death farewell
reverence king pin  

Explain the following line with reference to the context in about 5 to 8 line:

“Our lands, our lives, and all are Bolingbroke’s,

And nothing can we call our own but death;”


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

“And yet not so – for what can we bequeath

Save our deposed bodies to the ground?”


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