Commerce (English Medium) कक्षा १२ - CBSE Important Questions for English Core

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words: 

Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams? 

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words: 

Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words: 

Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?

Answer the following question in 120 – 150 words: 

Teachers always advise their students to dream big. Yet, the same teachers in your classrooms find fault with Sophie when she dreams. What is wrong with Sophie's dreams?

Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words : 

Sophie lives in a world full of dreams which she does not know she cannot realise. Comment.

Answer the following question in 120 − 150 words : 

How different is Jansie from Sophie? 

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It is not unusual for a lower middle class girl to dream big. How unrealistic were Sophie's dreams ?

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It is normal for adolescents to fantasise and indulge in hero worship. How far is it true of Sophie? 

Why did Jansie not approve of Sophie’s dream ? 

Why didn’t Sophie want Jansie to know about her story with Danny?

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

Old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon,

Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and

smile... ... ...

a) What does the phrase, 'familiar ache' mean?

b) What was the poet's childhood fear?

c) What do the first two lines tell us about the poet's feelings for her mother?

d) What does the repeated use of the word, 'smile' mean?

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

Old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon,

Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and

smile... ... ...

a) What does the phrase, 'familiar ache' mean?

b) What was the poet's childhood fear?

c) What do the first two lines tell us about the poet's feelings for her mother?

d) What does the repeated use of the word, 'smile' mean?

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

Old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon,

Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and

smile... ... ...

a) What does the phrase, 'familiar ache' mean?

b) What was the poet's childhood fear?

c) What do the first two lines tell us about the poet's feelings for her mother?

d) What does the repeated use of the word, 'smile' mean?

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

Old

familiar ache, my childhood's fear,

but all I said was, see you soon,

Amma,

all I did was smile and smile and

smile... ... ...

a) What does the phrase, 'familiar ache' mean?

b) What was the poet's childhood fear?

c) What do the first two lines tell us about the poet's feelings for her mother?

d) What does the repeated use of the word, 'smile' mean?

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

I saw my mother,
beside me,
doze, open mouthed, her face
ashen like that
of a corpse and realized with
pain
that she was as old as she
looked but soon
put that thought away,.......

(a) What worried the poet when she looked at her mother ?
(b) Why was there pain in her realization ?
(c) Why did she put that thought away ?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.

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

I looked again at her, wan,
pale
as a late winter's moon and felt that
old
familiar ache, my childhood's fear,
... ... ...

(a) Who is 'her'?
(b) Why did the poet look at 'her' again?
(c) What was the poet's childhood fear?
(d) Identify the figure of speech used in these lines.
 

Why has the poet brought in the image of the merry children ‘spilling out of their homes’?

State the common issue faced by most of the aged in the current times, with reference to the poem My Mother at Sixty-six.

Read the given extract and answer the questions.

1. What is the speaker's emotional state when looking at her mother?     (1)
   1. Confused and disoriented
   2. Nostalgic and longing
   3. Empathetic and understanding
   4. Fearful and apprehensive
2. What does the use of the word "but" at the beginning of the line, ‘but all I said..’, suggest?    (1)
3. Select the word that WILL NOT complete the sentence appropriately.     (1)
   The description of the mother as "wan, pale/as a late winter's moon" creates a vivid image of ______.
   1. vulnerability
   2. sensitivity
   3. frailty
   4. mortality
4. State whether the given statement is TRUE or FALSE.     (1)
   The poetic device used in the line, ‘pale as a winter’s moon’ is the same as the one used in the line, ‘the winter wind wistfully wailed at night’.
5. What message do these lines highlight, in the context of familial relationships, and the speaker’s sense of anxiety and fear at the prospect of losing her mother?     (1)
6. Complete the sentence appropriately.      (1)
   The repetition of the word, ‘smile’ suggests that ______.

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

Perhaps the Earth can teach us

as when everything seems dead

and later proves to be alive.

Now I’ll count upto twelve

and you keep quiet and I will go.

(i) What does the Earth teach us? 

(ii) What does the poet mean to achieve by counting upto twelve? 

(iii) What is the significance of ‘keeping quiet’?