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Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

They do not ever in their dealings…

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They do not ever in their dealings…

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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. C. (ii) | पृष्ठ ५६

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Guess what friendly words these two gentlemen exchange when shaking hands.


What happens to the poet when he visits someone for the third time?


What pleasantries does the poet use to fake cordiality?


What does the poet long for?


Explain the following lines with reference to the context.

Once upon a time, son They used to laugh with their eyes:


Read the poem again and complete the summary using the words given in the box.

In the poem ‘Confessions of a Born Spectator,’ Ogden Nash talks about how people choose different sports in their lives or decide to become athletes. While admiring the talents of athletes and sportsmen, the poet (i)______he is glad that he is neither a sportsman nor an athlete. Children have different (ii)______and wish to play various games. Each child has in mind something in particular, but the narrator is (iii)______he is not one of the players. Though the narrator (iv) ______the talents of all athletes, he derives satisfaction from watching them, but does not wish to (v) ______places with them. He also sometimes regrets that (vi)______athletes play rough games without caring for the feelings of their sporting rivals. He feels that good sense and caution win over ego. The narrator wholeheartedly offers (vii) ______the modest (viii) ______of athletes. Ultimately the narrator is (ix)______that he himself is not an athlete.

thanksgiving  exchange glad

confesses physiques zealous

satisfied aims admires


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

They do not ever in their dealings Consider one another’s feelings…


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…


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


Everybody is special and everybody is a hero. Each one has a story to tell. In the light of this observation, present your views.


Do you go for leisurely walks? If you are a city-dweller, what or who would you expect to see on your way?


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

To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran.


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?


The poet finds joy in various objects of Nature. Explain.


Listening Activity

Some phrases have been left out in the poem below. First, read the poem. Then, fill in the missing words on listening to the reading or the recording of it in full. You may listen again, if required

To Autumn

O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained

With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit

Beneath my ______, there thou may’st rest,

And tune thy jolly voice to my ______;

And all the daughters of the year shall dance!

Sing now the ______of fruits and flowers.

“The ______opens her beauties to

The sun, and love runs in her ______;

Blossoms hang round the brows of morning and

Flourish down the ______of modest eve,

Till clust’ring Summer breaks forth into singing,

And ______strew flowers round her head.

The spirits of the air live on the smells

Of fruit; and joy, with ______, roves round

The gardens, or sits singing in the trees.”

Thus sang the ______as he sat,

Then rose, girded himself, and o’er the bleak

Hills fled from our sight; but left his ______.

William Blake


‘Nature can nurture’. Describe how this process happens.


Write a letter to the Councillor of your Ward, explaining why a park is necessary in your locality.


Why is the Flying Squad frustrated?


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. ______.

Who are the ‘deserving ones’?


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Our nature it is that whatever we try We do with devotion deep and true.

  1. Who does ‘we’ refer to?
  2. How should we carry out our duties?

Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

Defeat we repel, courage our fort;

  1. How do we react to defeat?
  2. Which is considered as our stronghold?

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

The spectators died laughing at the ______of the clown.


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

The business woman wished to ______all her riches to an orphanage, after her death.


How does the king establish that he and his subjects are equal in the end?


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,…”


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