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What is the first stage of a human’s life?

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The first stage of human life is “infant”. The babe in the nurse’s arms pukes and mewls.

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अध्याय 3.2: All the World’s a Stage - Exercise [पृष्ठ ९२]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 3.2 All the World’s a Stage
Exercise | Q 2. c) | पृष्ठ ९२

संबंधित प्रश्न

Fill in the following empty boxes.

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

Why does the narrator say that the enemy was no threat at all?


Our gates were strong, our walls were thick,


I will maintain until my death


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

With our arms and provender, load on load.


Identify the figure of speech used 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.


How does the creeper appear on the tree?


Describe the garden during the night.


Does nature communicate with human beings?


Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.


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”

Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

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;

  1. Whom does justice refer to?
  2. Describe his appearance.
  3. How does he behave with the people around him?
  4. What does he do to show his wisdom?

Complete the summary of the poem, choosing words from the list given below. Lines 44 to 70

Ulysses beckons his sailors to (1) ______at the port where the ship is ready to sail. His companions who have faced both (2) ______and sunshine with a smile, are united by their undying spirit of adventure. Though death would end everything, Ulysses urges his companions to join him and sail beyond the sunset and seek a newer (3) ______, regardless of consequences. These brave hearts who had once moved (4) ______ and earth, may have grown old and weak physically but their spirit is young and (5) ______. His call is an inspiration for all those who seek true knowledge and strive to lead (6) ______ lives.

world, thunder, meaningful, gather, undaunted, heaven

How would Telemachus transform the subjects?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea...


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.

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.


How would the poet’s advice help his son who is at the threshold of the manhood?


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.

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

Tell him time as a stuff can be wasted.

Tell him to be a fool every so often

  1. Why does the poet suggest that time can be wasted?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

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.

and guide him among sudden betrayals

and tighten him for slack moments.


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?


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


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?

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