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Why was the rider in a hurry?

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The rider was in a hurry to deliver happy news of victory to his emperor.

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Poem (Class 12th)
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पाठ 6.2: Incident of the French Camp - Exercise [पृष्ठ १९४]

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सामाचीर कलवी English Class 12 TN Board
पाठ 6.2 Incident of the French Camp
Exercise | Q 2. h. | पृष्ठ १९४

संबंधित प्रश्‍न

Why does the narrator say that the enemy was no threat at all?


Who had let the enemies in?


Why were the secret galleries bare?


Why did the narrator feel helpless?


I will maintain until my death


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Oh then our maze of tunneled stone


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Grew thin and treacherous as air.


Identify the figure of speech used in the following line.

Our only enemy was gold,


Explain the following line with reference to the context.

Unto thy honor, Tree, beloved of those

Who now in blessed sleep for aye repose,


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


Shakespeare has skilfully brought out the parallels between the life of man and actors on stage. Elaborate this statement with reference to the poem.


What does he think of the people of his kingdom?


Who does the speaker address in the second part?


Why did Ulysses want to hand over the kingdom to his son?


How would Telemachus transform the subjects?


Identify the figure of speech employed in the following line.

And drunk delight of battle with my peers;


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

… I mete and dole

Unequal laws unto a savage race,

That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and

know not me.

  1. What does Ulysses do?
  2. Did he enjoy what he was doing? Give reasons.

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

That ever with a frolic welcome took

The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed

  1. What do ‘thunder’ and ‘sunshine’ refer to?
  2. What do we infer about the attitude of the sailors?

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.

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew.


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.

Pick out the alliterated words from the poem and write.

And this might stand him for the storms


Explain how the poet guides his son who is at the threshold of manhood, to face the challenges of life.


Who took the city of Ratisbon by storm?


The young soldier matched his emperor in courage and patriotism. Elucidate your answer.


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