English Medium कक्षा १० - CBSE Important Questions

Answer the following question:
How do we know that Michael's father was fascinated by computers?

In the story, Virtually True, Michael said, "That's what I like about computers. The more futuristic they get, the better you can understand the past." Explain what he meant.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:

"You must make your public happier :

Give them something, sharper, snappier.

We must aim for better billings."

(a) Identify the speaker of the above lines.

(b) Who does 'we' refer to?

(c) What must be done for 'better billings' 

(d) What trait of the speaker's character is revealed through the above lines?

Even though both, the frog from Vikram Seth’s poem, The Frog and the Nightingale and Abel's children from the play, The Dear Departed, display greed, there are differences. Elaborate, in about 150 words, how the greed of the frog and that of Abel's children differ in motivation, actions, relationship, and consequences.

In “Not Marble, nor the Gilded Monuments”, how does the poet justify that his verse will live on forever ? 

What feelings does the partially destroyed statue of Ozymandias convey?

What is ironic about the inscription on the pedestal of Ozymandias?

What quality of King Ozymandias does the poem reflect ?

"The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed". Whose hand and heart are referred to in this line ? Why ?

What did the traveller see in the desert?

Did the sculpture of Ozymandias fulfil the purpose for which it had been built ? Give reasons. 

Answer the following in 100-200 words :

Time humbles even the greatest of the great. One should cultivate the quality of humility. Describe how time has reduced the mighty Ozymandias to nothing.

How effective is the use of the phrase "Nothing beside remains" in conveying the theme of the transience and impermanence of power and human achievement, in Ozymandias by P.B.Shelley?

What was the crime committed by the mariner?

Why were the mariners angry with the Ancient Mariner?

Why does the ancient Mariner compel the wedding guest to listen to his story?

Why did the wedding guest beat his breast ?

How did the mariners reach the land of ice and snow ?

How were the mariners saved from the land of ice and snow?

What were the blessings the albatross brought with itself in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ?