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Not everybody loves to play and participate in games, sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of us wish to be mere spectators.

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प्रश्न

Not everybody loves to play and participate in games, sports and other extra-curricular activities. Some of us wish to be mere spectators. List out the activities in which you like to be either a performer or a spectator. Share your views with the class.

Activities
  performer/player spectator/audience
e.g. cricket magician
a.    
b.    
c.    
d.    
e.    
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उत्तर

Activities
  performer/player spectator/audience
e.g. cricket magician
a. Football hockey
b. volleyball kabbadi
c. movie chess
d. music concert dance
e. karate singing
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Poem (Class 11th)
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पाठ 2.2: Confessions of a Born Spectator - Warm Up [पृष्ठ ५३]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
पाठ 2.2 Confessions of a Born Spectator
Warm Up | Q 1. | पृष्ठ ५३

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Mention the qualities the child in the poem symbolises.


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

I have learned to wear my faces Like dresses …


Why would the referee ask whether there was a doctor in the stands? What stands is he referring to?


Why does the poet prefer to buy tickets worth their weight in radium? Bring out the significance of the metal referred to here.


How does the poet establish the victory of common sense over ego?


Read the given lines and answer the questions that follow in a sentence or two.

With all my heart I do admire

Athletes who sweat for fun or hire

  1. Whom does the poet admire?
  2. For what reasons do the athletes sweat?

Read the poem and answer the following in a short paragraph of 8–10 sentences each.

When officialdom demands Is there a doctor in the stands?

  1. Why are doctors called from stands by the sponsors?
  2. Why does the poet make such an observation?

Read the poem and complete the table with suitable rhyming words

e.g. enter center
  hockey
admire  
  romp
  deeds
score  
please  
  wrist
demands  
  stadium

Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

They do not ever in their dealings…


Find out the rhyme scheme of the given stanza.

One infant grows up and becomes a jockey

Another plays basketball or hockey

This one the prize ring hates to enter

That one becomes a tackle or center…


What sort of encouragement should an athlete in India be given? Give a few suggestions.


Find words from the poem that convey the following ideas:

  1. connected together
  2. spread over the surface of the ground in a straggling manner 
  3. make out or understand
  4. slender woody shoots growing from branches or stems of trees

Read the following line and identify the figure of speech used in each extract.

What Man has made of Man?


How do people bring grief and sorrow to one another?


What is Macavity expected to be doing after committing a crime?


Which two characters does the poet refer to as examples of wicked cats?


Describe the appearance and qualities of Macavity.


Read the given lines and answer the question that follow.

Macavity’s a Mystery Cat: he’s called the Hidden Paw…

  1. Does the poet talk about a real cat?
  2. Why is he called the Hidden Paw?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

And when you think he’s half asleep, he’s always wide awake


Identify the following personalities and their fields of achievement.

  Name Field
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  1. Mention a remarkable achievement of any of these personalities.
  2. What quality do you admire the most in each of these achievers?
  3. What are the qualities that you may share with them?
  4. Name a few more popular personalities who have made our nation proud.
  1. ______.
  2. ______.
  3. ______.
  4. ______.

What does ‘Everest’ in the title stand for?


Fill in the blanks using the words given in the box to complete the summary of the poem:

King Richard the Second, had surrendered to his (a)______cousin, Bollingbroke. He experienced deep distress at the horror of his circumstances. In that desperate situation, he speaks of (b)______, (c)______, (d)______and other things connected with death. He spoke of how people leave nothing behind and can call nothing their own, except for the small patch of (e)______, where they will be buried. King Richard yielded to dejection and talked of all the different ways in which defeated kings suffer how some had been deposed, (f)______in war, (g)______by their wives and so forth. He attributed this loss of lives to (h)______, who he personified as the jester who watches over the shoulder of every ruler, who mocks kings by allowing them to think their human flesh, was like (i)______brass. However, Death penetrates through the castle walls, silently and unnoticed like a sharp (j)______, thus bidding (k)______to him and all his pride forever. Finally, Richard appealed to his soldiers not to mock his mere flesh and blood by showing (l) ______and respect to him. He added that he too needed bread to live, felt want, tasted (m)______and needed (n)______. He concluded thus, urging his men not to call him a (o)______as he was only human, just like the rest of them.

barren-earth friends graves slain
rebellious poisoned worms grief
impregnable epitaphs death farewell
reverence king pin  

Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:

Shravan never keeps his promises. His friends know that his words are ______.


Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:

The fortress was ______and could not be conquered by the enemies.


Fill in the blank with appropriate word from the box and complete the statement suitably:

Alexander the Great, wished to conquer many lands and ______the entire world.


What do the three words, ‘graves, worms and epitaphs’, refer to?


Explain the following line with reference to the context in about 5 to 8 line:

All murdered – for within the hollow crown

That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, …”


Read the poem once again carefully and identify the figure of speech that has been used in each of the following line from the poem:

“Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits,…”


Pick out the alliteration from the following lines:

“And tell sad stories of the death of kings:”


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