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Read the poem and complete the table with suitable rhyming words

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

e.g. enter center

jockey

hockey

admire

hire

pomp

romp

feeds

deeds

score

floor

please

these

fist

wrist

demands

stands

radium

stadium

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Poem (Class 11th)
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पाठ 2.2: Confessions of a Born Spectator - Exercises [पृष्ठ ५६]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 11 TN Board
पाठ 2.2 Confessions of a Born Spectator
Exercises | Q 5. B. | पृष्ठ ५६

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

How does the poet compare his face with dresses?


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

I have learned to wear my faces Like dresses …


Why does the poet feel glad that he does not play any game?


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.


Explain the following with reference to the context in about 50–60 word each.

I am just glad as glad can be That I am not them, that they are not me…


Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

For this most modest physiques…


Why do accidents usually happen in the playground? Give your own examples and explain


If you go to a village, what scenes would you observe?


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

And I must think, do all I can,

That there was pleasure there…

  1. What did the poet notice about the twigs?
  2. What was the poet’s thought about then?

Read the poem once again. Identify the rhyme scheme and pick out the rhyming pairs of words.


How do people bring grief and sorrow to one another?


Answer in a paragraph of about 100−150 words.

Do you think the poet wants to say that man is unhappy because he has lost his link with nature and forgotten how to enjoy nature, or because man is cruel to other men?


Who does the Secret Service suspect when a loss is reported?


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


Read the given lines and answer the question that follow.

He’s the bafflement of Scotland

Yard, the Flying Squad’s despair:

For when they reach the scene of crime

— Macavity’s not there!..

  1. What is ‘Scotland Yard’?
  2. Why does the flying squad feel disappointed?

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

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


What does ‘Everest’ in the title stand for?


What does ‘hillock’ refer to in the line ‘Every hillock has a summit to boast!’?


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 ______.


What does the executor mentioned in the poem do?


What does the crown of rulers stand for?


Bring out King Richard’s feelings when he was defeated.


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, …”


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

“Comes at the last, and with a little pin

Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”


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:

“Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!”


Pick out the alliteration from the following lines:

“Comes at the last, and with a little pin…”


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