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Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face? - English

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Did the soldiers fight with the enemies face to face?

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No, the soldiers did not fight with their enemies face to face.

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पाठ 1.2: The Castle - Exercise [पृष्ठ २०]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 1.2 The Castle
Exercise | Q 1. f) | पृष्ठ २०

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Why were the secret galleries bare?


What was the ‘shameful act’?


Read the given line and answer the question that follow in a line or two.

All through the summer at ease we lay,

And daily from the turret wall

We watched the mowers in the hay

  1. Who does ‘we’ refer to?
  2. How did the soldiers spend the summer days?
  3. What could they watch from the turret wall?

Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

With our arms and provender, load on load.


Fill in the blanks choosing the words from the box given and complete the summary of the poem.

The casuarina tree is tall and strong, with a creeper winding around it like a (1) ______. The tree stands like a (2) ______with a colourful scarf of flowers. Birds surround the garden and the sweet song of the birds is heard. The poet is delighted to see the casuarina tree through her (3) ______. She sees a grey monkey sitting like a (4) ______on top of the tree, the cows grazing, and the water lilies (5) ______in the pond. The poet feels that the tree is dear to her not for its (6) ______appearance but for the (7) ______memories of her happy childhood that it brings to her. She strongly believes that (8) ______communicates with human beings. The poet could communicate with the tree even when she was in a far-off land as she could hear the tree (9) ______her absence. The poet (10) ______the tree’s memory to her loved ones, who are not alive. She immortalizes the tree through her poem like the poet Wordsworth who (11) ______the yew tree of Borrowdale in verse. She expresses her wish that the tree should be remembered out of love and not just because it cannot be (12) ______.

python statue nature casement
nostalgic lamenting impressive forgotten
giant consecrates springing sanctified

Does nature communicate with human beings?


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

The giant wears the scarf, and flowers are hung

In crimson clusters all the bough among!

  1. Who is the giant here?
  2. Why is the scarf colourful?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

It is the tree’s lament, an eerie speech,…


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those

Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,


How does a man play a lover’s role?


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;


Complete the table based on your understanding of the poem.

Stage Characteristic
  crying
judge  
soldier  
  unhappy
second childhood  
  whining
old man  

What has Ulysses gained from his travel experiences?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


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

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

  1. Though made weak by time and fate, the hearts are heroic. Explain.
  2. Pick out the words in alliteration in the above lines.

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.


List the roles and responsibilities Ulysses assigns to his son Telemachus, while he is away.


What happened to the people who wanted too much money?


The poet says

‘Without rich wanting nothing arrives’ but he condemns ‘the quest of lucre beyond a few easy needs.’ Analyse the difference and write.


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

Tell him to be a fool ever so often

and to have no shame over having been a fool

yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies

  1. Is it a shame to be a fool at times?
  2. What does one learn from every folly?

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.

Yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Brutes have been gentled where lashes failed.


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


Where did the rider plant the French flag after Ratisbon was captured?


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

Legs wide, arms locked behind As if to balance the prone brow Oppressive with its mind.

  1. Whose action is described here?
  2. What is meant by prone brow?
  3. What is his state of mind?

The young soldier matched his emperor in courage and patriotism. Elucidate your answer.


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


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