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What was the ‘shameful act’? - English

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What was the ‘shameful act’?

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Being sold to an enemy and losing the castle without a heroic fight is a ‘shameful act’.

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Poem (Class 12th)
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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. j) | पृष्ठ २०

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Where were the enemies?


How did the enemies enter the castle?


Why were the secret galleries bare?


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

We could do nothing, being sold.

  1. Why couldn’t they do anything?
  2. Why did they feel helpless?

Underline the alliterated word in the following line.

A little wicked wicket gate.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Our only enemy was gold,


How does the poet spend her winter?


Name the bird that sings in the poet’s garden.


Describe the reminiscences of the poet, when she sees the casuarina tree.


“And they have their exits and their entrances” - What do the words ‘exits’ and ‘entrances’ mean?


Bring out the features of the fourth stage of a man as described by the poet.


Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.

“And one man in his time plays many parts”


Pick out the word in ‘alliteration’ in the following line.

“Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel.”


Read the given line and answer the question that follow.

And then the justice,

In fair round belly with good capon lin'd,

With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,

Full of wise saws and modern instances;

  1. Whom does justice refer to?
  2. Describe his appearance.
  3. How does he behave with the people around him?
  4. What does he do to show his wisdom?

Describe the various stages of a man’s life picturised in the poem “All the World’s a stage."


Complete the summary of the poem, choosing words from the list given below. Lines 33 to 42

Ulysses desires to hand over his (1) ______to his son Telemachus, who would fulfil his duties towards his subjects with care and (2) ______. Telemachus possesses patience and has the will to civilise the citizens of Ithaca in a (3) ______way. Ulysses is happy that his son would do his work blamelessly and he would pursue his (4) ______for travel and knowledge.

prudence, kingdom, quest, tender

‘He works his work, I mine’ – How is the work distinguished?


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

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough

Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades

For ever and for ever when I move

  1. What is experience compared to?
  2. How do the lines convey that the experience is endless?

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

This is my son, mine own Telemachus,

To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle Well-loved of me,

  1. Who does Ulysses entrust his kingdom to, in his absence?
  2. Bring out the significance of the ‘sceptre’.

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

……for my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

  1. What was Ulysses’ purpose in life?
  2. How long would his venture last?

Explain with reference to the context the following line.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!


Explain with reference to the context the following line.

We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven;


What is Ulysses’ clarion call to his sailors? How does he inspire them?


What has twisted good men into thwarted worms?


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

“Life is hard; be steel; be a rock.”

  1. How should one face life?
  2. Identify the figure of speech in the above line.

Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Yet learning something out of every folly

hoping to repeat none of the cheap follies


Who took the city of Ratisbon by storm?


Why did Napoleon’s eyes become soft as a mother eagle’s eyes?


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