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प्रश्न
You have recently watched an interesting film. Write a review of this film, in about 200 – 250 words, based on the points given below.
Name of the film and its director – actors in the film – type of film – plot – quality of direction/acting – cinematography/costumes/sets – reaction of audiences – recommended/not recommended
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उत्तर
Film - Enola Holmes
Cast - Milli Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, Sam Claflin, Louis Partridge, Helena Bonham Carter
Director - Harry Bradbeer
"Enola Holmes" is based on Nancy Springer's "The Enola Holmes Mysteries." It's a work of fiction featuring a variety of topics, including mystery, adventure, a dash of feminism, and a whole lot of fun. The storey takes place in nineteenth-century England, where women were expected to conform to social norms. Women wore corsets, bonnets, top hats, bustles, and petticoats, just as they did in the nineteenth century, and men wore frock coats and straight trouses.
Following the success of hit, television shows such as "Fleabag" and "Killing Eve," director Harry Bradbeer presents us "Enola Holmes," an action-adventure film. During the epidemic, it was the most-watched film on the internet, and in 2020, it was the seventh-most-searched film on Google worldwide.
The protagonist's name is the same as the title of the film. Millie Bobby Brown is the actress who plays her. Her brothers Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft Holmes (Sam Claflin) are major figures in her life, as are Lord Tewksbury (Louis Partridge), a worthless but amiable man, and her mother Eudoria Holmes (Helena Bonham Carter).
Enola is the youngest of the famed Holmes family's sibilings. She is incredibly brilliant, perceptive, and intuitive, confounding social expectations for women at the period. She wakes up on her 16th birthday to find her mother has vanished, and she is placed in the care of her famous detective brothers, Sherlock and Mycroft, who have sent her to a school for "decent" young girls. She finally makes it to London and finds her mother. Her voyage, however, leads her into a mystery involving a young runaway Viscount Tewkebury. Enola becomes a super sleuth in her own right as the film goes, and she saves the lord from scheming. She finds her mother and the reason for her absence when she returns to her lodgings. Enola has finally found her independence and her calling.
To summarise, it is a highly recommended film for people of all ages because it is entertaining.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
Read the passage given below and answer the questions (a), (b) and (c) that follow :
(1) At the Literary Society’s meeting, Isola read out the letters written to her Granny Pheen, when she was but a little girl. They were from a very kind man – a complete stranger. Isola told us how these letters came to be written.
(2) When Granny Pheen was nine years old, her cat died. Heartbroken, sitting in the middle of the road, she was sobbing her heart out.
(3) A carriage, driving far too fast, came within a whisker of running her down. A very big man in a dark coat with a fur collar, jumped out, leaned over Pheen, and asked if he could help her. Granny Pheen said she was beyond help. Muffin, her cat, was dead.
(4) The man said, ‘Of course, Muffin’s not dead. You do know cats have nine lives, don’t you?’ When Pheen said yes, the man said, ‘Well, I happen to know your Muffin was only on her third life, so she has six lives left.’ Pheen asked how he knew. He said he always knew - cats would often appear in his mind and chat with him. Well, not in words, of course, but in pictures.
(5) He sat down on the road beside her and told her to keep still – very still. He would see if Muffin wanted to visit him. They sat in silence for several minutes, when suddenly the man grabbed Pheen’s hand.
(6) ‘Ah – yes! There she is! She’s being born this minute! In a mansion – in France. There’s a little boy petting her, he’s going to call her Solange. This Solange has great spirit, great verve – I can tell already! She is going to have a long, venturesome life.’
(7) Granny Pheen was so rapt by Muffin’s new fate that she stopped crying. The man said he would visit Solange every so often and find out how she was faring.
(8) He asked for Granny Pheen’s name and the name of the farm where she lived, got back into the carriage, and left.
(9) Absurd as all this sounds, Granny Pheen did receive eight long letters. Isola then read them out. They were all about Muffin’s life as the French cat − Solange. She was, apparently, something of a feline musketeer. She was no idle cat, lolling about on cushions, lapping up cream – she lived through one wild adventure after another – the only cat ever to be awarded the red rosette of the Legion of Honour.
(10) What a story this man had made up for Pheen – lively, witty, full of drama and suspense. We were enchanted, speechless at the reading. When it was over (and much applauded), I asked Isola if I could see the letters, and she handed them to me.
(11) The writer had signed his letters with a grand flourish :
VERY TRULY YOURS,
O.F. O’F. W.W.
It was highly possible that Isola had inherited eight letters written by Oscar Wilde, for who else could have had such a preposterous name as Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Willis Wilde.
Adapted from : The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society – By Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
(a) (i) Given below are four words and phrases. Find the words which have a similar meaning in the passage :[4]
(1) adventurous
(2) cat-like
(3) appreciated
(4) received something on someone’s death
(ii) For each of the words given below, write a sentence of at least ten words using the same word unchanged in form, but with a different meaning from that which it carries in the passage :[4]
(1) kind (line 2)
(2) mind (line 13)
(3) still (line 15)
(4) sounds (line 26)
(b) Answer the following questions in your own words as briefly as possible:
(i) Where did Isola get the letters from to read at the Literary Society’s meeting?[2]
(ii) Who consoled Granny Pheen when she was heart-broken? What did he say about Muffin’s lives?[2]
(iii) What did the man say when Granny Pheen asked him how he knew about cats’ lives?[2]
(iv) According to the man, what was Muffin’s new fate?[3]
(c) In not more than 100 words, summarise why the eight letters were a treasure to Granny Pheen. (Paragraphs 2 to 10). Failure to keep within the word limit will be penalised. You will be required to write the summary in the form of a connected passage in about 100 words.[8]
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I have appointment________the dentist.
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He cried bitterly when he said this, for he was extremely fond of the Queen.
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(ii) In what way was Princess September different from her sisters? What reason does the author give for this difference in their temperaments?
(iii) Which unusual birthday tradition did the King of Siam observe? Mention some of the gifts that he gave.
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Sunita opened her purse. She found the money missing.
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(Begin: In spite............................................ )
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Use it in a sentence of your own.
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Satyajit attending the village wedding.
Give reasons for the following.
Satyajit's feeling that he was an impostor.
Comment on the way in which the story is narrated from Satyajit's perspective.
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- Selectivity of contents
- Subject/Title Apporpriacy
- Sequence of Contents
- Language Appropriacy/Type
- Good Points/Novelty in the book
- Advantages/Scope of the book. (if any)
- Demerits/Shortcomings (if any)
- Message/Opinion/Views (Personal)
- Conclusion (in short)
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| You | Good morning Madam. |
| Old lady | Good morning. |
| You | I am from the Fire and Rescue department. How can I help you? |
| Old lady | |
| You | |
| Old lady | |
| You | |
| Old lady | |
| You | |
| Old lady | |
| You | |
| Old lady | |
| You |
______ do you go to school?
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With whom...
When did it happen...
Why...
Where...
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a tinge of coldness
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