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What Do These Statement Tell You About Anne Frank as a Person?Anyone Could Ramble on and Leave Big Spaces Between the Words, but the Trick Was to Come up with Convincing Arguments to Prove the Nec - English - Language and Literature

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What do these statement tell you about Anne Frank as a person?

Anyone could ramble on and leave big spaces between the words, but the trick was to come up with convincing arguments to prove the necessity of taking.

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उत्तर

 This statement shows that Anne knew a lot about writing. She was given the task of writing an essay as a punishment. She took it on with full vigour. She did not want to write it like others who merely left big spaces between the words to make the essay look voluminous. She knew that the trick was to come up with a convincing argument to prove the necessity of talking. She was different in her approach from everybody else.

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From the Diary of Anne Frank
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संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Attempt a character sketch of Peter in 120‒150 words.


Here is some entrie from personal records. Use the definition above to decide which of the entrie might be from a diary, a journal, a log or a memoir.

10:30 a.m. Went to the office of the Director

01:00 p.m. Had lunch with Chairman

05:45 p.m. Received Rahul at the airport

09:30 p.m. Dinner at home

Ans: _____________________________


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Why does Anne want to keep a diary?


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Anne says teachers are most unpredictable. Is Mr Keesing unpredictable? How?


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 I don’t want to jot down the facts in this diary the way most people would, but I want the diary to be my friend.


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Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow:

I started right away at the Montessori nursery school. I stayed them until I was six, at which time I started in the first form. m the sixth form my teacher was Mrs. Kuperus, the headmistress. At the end of the year we were both in tears as we said a heartbreaking farewell.

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  1. The narrator 'I' refers to _____.    (1)
    1. Mr. Keesing
    2. Mrs. Kuperus
    3. Anne Frank
    4. Miss Margot
  2. The phrase 'right away' in this extract most nearly means:     (1)
    1. with delay
    2. the correct way
    3. immediately
    4. overtaking from right
  3. What does the narrator mean by saying 'we were both in tears'?       (1)
  4. Complete the analogy by selecting a word from the text:     (1)
    dawn: dusk:: mourning: ______.
  5. Select the option that correctly captures the application of the word 'form' as used in the extract.      (1)
    1. Raghav was in good form while playing the match.
    2. Saheb was promoted to the next form after the annual exam.
    3. My brother did not know how to form a circle.
    4. Anne saw the form on the headmaster's desk.

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