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Who was the real enemy?

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Who was the real enemy?

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“The gold” was their real enemy.

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Poem (Class 12th)
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अध्याय 1.2: The Castle - Exercise [पृष्ठ २१]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
अध्याय 1.2 The Castle
Exercise | Q 1. m) | पृष्ठ २१

संबंधित प्रश्न

Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?


They seemed no threat to us at all.


Our only enemy was gold


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

With our arms and provender, load on load.


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

A little wicked wicket gate.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

How can this shameful tale be told?


You visit your school after several years. As you cross the banyan tree at the entrance, cheerful memories fi ll your mind. Fill the bubbles with your memories.


Does nature communicate with human beings?


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those

Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,


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”,


Explain the following line briefly with reference to the context.

“They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts,”


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;


Shakespeare has skilfully brought out the parallels between the life of man and actors on stage. Elaborate this statement with reference to the poem.


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?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

For always roaming with a hungry heart


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

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


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

To follow knowledge like a sinking star.


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

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move

  1. What is experience compared to?
  2. How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

He works his work, I mine.


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.


Where was the narrator when the incident happened?


Where was Napoleon standing on the day of attack on the city of Ratisbon?


Who came galloping on a horse to Napoleon?


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Then off there flung in smiling joy, And held himself erect


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

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


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

To see your flag-bird flap his vans Where I, to heart’s desire, Perched him!’


Napoleon was a great source of inspiration to his army. Justify.


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