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प्रश्न
State a type of drama each from any four periods of history.
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उत्तर
The periods of the history of British Drama are each well known for their characteristic plays. These are of the following types:
- Medieval Period: Didactic plays, Mystery plays, Miracle plays, Cycle plays, Morality plays.
- Renaissance Period: Tragic – Comedy, Melancholy, Revenge plays.
- Restoration Period: Heroic drama, Pathetic drama, Restoration drama, Restoration comedy.
- Victorian Period: All types of plays.
- Modern Period: Stream of consciousness, Absurd plays, Poetic drama, Radio drama.
- Post-Modern Era: Almost all types of dramas, Kitchen sink drama.
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A1 Find out :
Find from the passage the related words to the sea and write them.
ON FIERCE monsoon nights, about one and a quarter-mile off the Mumbai harbor, there have been occasions when 52-year-old Bikaji Ramchandra Dhuri is the only man on the sea. From the watchtower of the Prongs Reef Lighthouse, which is surrounded on all sides by the Arabian Sea, he has heard the sea rage like a possessed spirit – the darkness dispelled only by the beam of light flung across the waters from the tower he mans.
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A2 Fill in the following information using words from the passage :
(i) The Prongs Reef lighthouse was modeled on _______.
(ii) Dhuri lives in the lighthouse for _______ at a stretch.
(iii) _______ is one of the last breeds of lighthouse keepers on the Indian coast.
(iv) The majority of the _______ lighthouses in the country are now unmanned.
| Violent | Scattered | Place of shelter for ships | Shine light |
A4
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| (a) | ||||
| (b) | ||||
| (c) | ||||
| (d) |
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- ______
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- ______
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| (1) | |
| (2) | |
| (3) |
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